“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”
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“Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”
“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”
“The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.”
“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.”
“In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.”
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.”
“Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.”
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!”
“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.”
“My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.”
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.”
“Life in abundance comes only through great love.”
“The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.”
“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”
“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.”
“The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.”