Life

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.

It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

The true object of all human life is play.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life.

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry, because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

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.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.