Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
The goal of all life is death.
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
My life has been nothing but a failure.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
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