Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
The afternoon of life is just as full of meaning as the morning; only, its meaning and purpose are different.
Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow: Gather today the roses of life.
It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Art is long, life is short.
Life is a sleep and love is its dream; and you have lived if you have loved.
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and must schedule his time as though he were about to die.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Life well spent is long.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
... but we want to be the poets of our life—first of all in the smallest, most everyday matters.
The solution to the problem, which you see in life, lies in living in a way that makes the problems disappear.
While we wait for life, life passes.
It requires management to enjoy life.
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.
It is perhaps childhood that comes closest to one's 'real life'.
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