Life Quotes

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

In the end, everything is a gag.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

Nature is man's inorganic body - that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature - i.e., nature is his body - and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.

Love is life on a higher plain of existence, working through man to unite the forces of nature into a perfect whole. It is the merging force binding every element in existence into a perfect whole.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.