We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

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

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

Passions are the gales of life.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

To be in any way a positive contribution, that’s all anybody wants to be. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you’ve been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.