Quotes on Life

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.