Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

In the end, everything is a gag.

All of us are products of our childhood.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Live simply so others may simply live.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.