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.
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
The lie is a condition of life.
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Life well spent is long.
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
