Quotes on Life

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.

As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal.

The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path.

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes."

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.

Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.