Quotes on Life

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.

There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess, of its own, the aforementioned paradoxical properties. They are present in living systems only; that is to say, nowhere below the level of the cell.

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population, acting, in some degree, unshackled, from the constant habit of emigration.

Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

In spite of everything life is not without hope.