Quotes on Life

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?

Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.

two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.