To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

I never make conscious decisions.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.