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.
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
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.
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