Life

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

As long as some suffer The River Flows Forever As long as there is pain The River Flows Forever As strong as a smile can be The River will Flow Forever

This implies that the art of life is more like navigation than warfare, for what is important is to understand the winds, the tides, the currents, the seasons, and the principles of growth and decay, so that one's actions may use them and not fight them.

A long life is a life well spent.

The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.

O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

A life well used procures a happy death.

Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.

The motive power is the cause of all life.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Lust is the cause of generation.

Life well spent is long.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.