Life

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.

We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

Only the flow matters: live and let live, love and let love.

 

In this life there’s nothing new in dying,

 

'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.' J. R. R.

If thou should never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality.

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

No other road, no other way, no day but today.

 

Measure your life in love.

 

Life is a dream from which we must wake before we can dream again.

 

What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on? J. R. R.

 

He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall. J. R. R.

 

There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone. J. R. R.