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Quotes about life
My God, a whole moment of happiness! Is that too little for the whole of a man's life?
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
The one essential condition of human existence is that man should always be able to bow down before something infinitely great.
Compassion is the chief and perhaps the only law of human existence.
Some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.
It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.
What if I were not to die! What if I could go back to life — what eternity! I would turn every minute into an age; I would lose nothing, I would count every minute as it passed.
Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.
Love life more than the meaning of it.
The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the great thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted.
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.
The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano-key!
We are each responsible to all for all.
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in spring. I love the blue sky.
If he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once! Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
Twice two makes four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.