The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Life must be lived as play.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
