Life

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

You only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o’clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

I created nothing; I invented nothing; I imagined nothing; I perverted nothing; I simply discovered drama in real life.

A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another.

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

Live your life so that the fear of death can never enter your heart. When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light. Give thanks for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. And if perchance you see no reason for giving thanks, rest assured the fault is in yourself. Tecumseh Shawnee Chief

This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way is smooth and easy or rugged and difficult. Is life harder toward the end, or what report do you give it?

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods, and defend himself against his enemies, and win in the contest.

Life is a short exile

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.

The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

Folly pursues us throughout our lives, and the man whom we call wise is he whose follies are proportionate to his age and to his fortune.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.