It takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
Nature is the best guide of a good life.
Joy always announces that life has succeeded, gained ground, conquered. All great joy has a triumphant note.
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
Pleasure is the beginning and end of the blessed life.
Who knows? How odd and fickle is life ! How little is needed to ruin or rescue us !
There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
He who plays with life Never gets ahead.
Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in one's own sunshine.
This is the real secret of life: to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now, and instead of calling it 'work', realize that this is play.
Order does not create life.
Humanity prefers to life reasons to live.
To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.
It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.
The highest life is mathematics.
Every person born into this world has a natural right to sustain, preserve, and defend his own life to the best of his ability.
Life attracts life.
Every moment of life is a step towards death.
O philosophy, life’s guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.
Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
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