There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'
Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
I want to feel my life while I'm in it.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.