Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

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

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

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

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

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.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

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

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

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

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Water is my drink.

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

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

My life has been very full.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

My life is real.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

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.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Art is the proper task of life.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

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

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.