Quotes on Life

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

Your personality is something that you created. Once you are aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want.

The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.

I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come from the essence of how you live your day to day what you did in that between time because that is really your life.

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.

All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.

Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.

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

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

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.