The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Longer Version:
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
