Quotes on Life

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.

You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

I am going to sit here in the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you - until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life.

To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.

Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.