A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
His whole life's bright career was love.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
If we don't know life, how can we know death?
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
