Quotes on Life

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.

I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.