Quotes on Life

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.

Nothing is secure. That is my message. Nothing can be secure, because a secure life will be worse than death. Nothing is certain. Life is full of uncertainties, full of surprises - that is its beauty! You can never come to a moment when you can say, "Now I am certain." When you say you are certain, you simply declare your death, you have committed suicide.

Remember: life is a rhythm between day and night, summer and winter. It is a continuous rhythm. Never stop anywhere! Be moving! And the bigger the swing, the deeper your experience will be.

This is what I call understanding. If you understand, insecurity is an intrinsic part of life - and good that it is so, because it makes life a freedom, it makes life a continuous surprise. One never knows what is going to happen. It keeps you continuously in wonder. Don't call it uncertainty - call it wonder. Don't call it insecurity - call it freedom.

Life is possible only through challenges. Life is possible only when you have both good weather and bad weather, when you have both pleasure and pain, when you have both winter and summer, day and night. When you have both sadness and happiness, discomfort and comfort. Life moves between these two polarities. Moving between these two polarities you learn how to balance. Between these two wings you learn how to fly to the farthest star.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

He lives most life whoever breathes most air.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

This therefore is Mathematics: She reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul; She gives life to her own discoveries; She awakens the mind and purifies the intellect; She brings light to our intrinsic ideas; She abolishes oblivion and ignorance which are ours by birth.

The artificial products do not have any molecular dissymmetry; and I could not indicate the existence of a more profound separation between the products born under the influence of life and all the others.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

'I don't know' has become 'I don't know yet'.