Quotes on Life

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold.

How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings?

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.