“One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.”
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“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.”
“My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.”
“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”
“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.”
“The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.”
“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.”
“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.”
“I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.”
“Above our life we love a steadfast friend.”
“Children make your life important.”
“Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.”
“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.”
“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.”
“I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.”
“Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.”
“Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.”
“Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.”
“The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.”
“What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.”
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.”
“Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”
“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”