Quotes on Life

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

Chance encounters are what keep us going.

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.

My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.