Quotes on Life

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

Don't run your life by what's legal or illegal. Run your life based on what's right or wrong.

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.