I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.
All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
And how am I to face the odds of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
