life

"Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life."

"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."

"I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy."

"I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got."

"Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing."

"The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die."

"Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living."

"I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself."

"Everything you can imagine is real."

"Telephone pole wires get in the way of great photos. Communication always gets in the way of communication."

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

"Not forever does the bulbul singIn balmy shades of bowers,Not forever lasts the springNor ever blossom the flowers.Not forever reigneth joy,Sets the sun on days of bliss,Friendships not forever last,They know not life, who know not this."

"If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood."

"I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind."

"There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."

"Life is too short when you think of the length of death"

"Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter."

"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."

"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."

"Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue."