All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy selfish and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
To know nothing is the happiest life.
To me if life boils down to one thing it's movement. To live is to keep moving.
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it you don't get anything out of it.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
If you live long enough you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit never quit never quit.
Kindness I've discovered is everything in life.
Everything in life is luck.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Everything has been figured out except how to live.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
To live a pure unselfish life one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
We need to give each other the space to grow to be ourselves to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas openness dignity joy healing and inclusion.
Life's but a walking shadow a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.