Emotions and Feelings

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another name?

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

You can tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel as though you’ve done a permanent job.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.

Friends are the sunshine of life.

Friends are the sunshine of life.

Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.