If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
In married life three is company and two none.
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
