Quotes about Life

My dear, you will be woefully disappointed if in my story you expect any thing like a novel. I once heard a general say, that nothing was less like a review than a battle; and I can tell you that nothing is more unlike a novel than real life. Of all lives, mine has been the least romantic.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.