The round of a passionate man?s life is in contracting debts in his passion which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.
– Johnson
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
– Edwin Percy Whipple
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
– H. L. Mencken
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
– Norman Thomas
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
– James Taylor
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
– Julius Henry Marx
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
– Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, Act 3
The secret of life isn't an attempt to explain everything but, rather, to understand that certain things can't be explained. Demanding that everything is to be dissected neath a microscope is madness. Hence the attempt to explain everything is madness.
– Ahmed Korayem
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
– Charles R. Swindoll
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.
– Lu Yen
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
– W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage
The secret to life is that there is no secret.
– "Swampman" on Quartz
The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us, at noon we trample them under foot, and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us.
– Longfellow
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
– Leo Tolstoy
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
– Sallust
The sound of life has divine silence.
– Kedar Joshi
The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.
– T. Starr King
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
– Oscar Wilde
The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
– William James
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
– Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
