Quotes About Life

If you wish, like us, that the entire liberty of the individual and, consequently, his life be respected, you are necessarily brought to repudiate the government of man by man, whatever shape it assumes; you are forced to accept the principles of Anarchy that you have spurned so long. You must then search with us the forms of society that can best realize that ideal and put an end to all the violence that rouses your indignation.

Struggle! To struggle is to live, and the fiercer the struggle the intenser the life. Then you will have lived; and a few hours of such life are worth years spent vegetating.

and that they find in association the best arms for the struggle for life:

Un cristiano, un asceta, pueden reprobar esos deseos de lujo, pero, en realidad, tales bagatelas son precisamente las que rompen la monotonía de la existencia y la hacen agradable. ¿La vida valdría la pena de ser vivida, con todas sus inevitables tristezas, si el hombre no pudiera, fuera del trabajo, procurarse un solo placer de acuerdo con sus gustos individuales?

Each religious morality sanctifies its prescriptions by making them originate from revelation; and it tries to impress its teachings on the mind by a promise of reward, or punishment, either in this or in a future life.

Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name philosophers, and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.

Everything will resolve itself sooner or later. This is the way of the Tao. Walk through life without fear for the future or regret for the past.

Before I leave this world, I am never going to say, "I didn't do this"or "I regret I did that." I am going to say: "I came, I went, I did nothing, I did all.

Benjamin Franklin was certain of two things: death and taxes. Taoists are simpler. We are certain of only one thing: change, in all dimensions.

Wu Wei, doing nothing, and Wu Bu Wei, doing everything, are our answers to the challenges of modern life.

To earn bread is important; to taste its sweetness is more important.

My life began with you, and my future goes on with you—there's nothing else.

We danced all night. We danced the length of one song. We danced for just a moment. May we be so lucky as to still be dancing under the light of the Harvest Moon three hundred years on!

The price for freedom may be high, but the price that we pay for being imprisoned and cut off from the very root of our being is even higher. When you choose life, you must have the courage to sacrifice your old, worn-out, ineffective self.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.

Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

It was not so much that I longed for death as that I didn't long for life.