Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

Time stays, we go.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

I always wanted more – more of everything.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

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

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.