Quotes on Life

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Islamophobia first appeared in my life on 11 September 2001. I was coming back from college and didn't know what had happened. A white van stopped and a man got out. He spat on me, yelled a profanity, and then threw a can of coke in my direction. I cried as I walked home.

I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don't blame yoga or the whole community of yogis

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.

I have tried to keep my eco-anxiety at bay, to box it into my working life. But every month this becomes more difficult. The rising sense of panic I feel is entirely rational; we should all be feeling it. But we can't live with it through every hour of every day.

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.