Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

To be awake is to be alive.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Life loves the liver of it.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

I live in a crazy time.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

Life is our dictionary.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

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

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove – there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

This is not a bad life.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?