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The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
~ Edmund White Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 5. As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Experience a comb life gives you after you lose your hair.
~ Judith Stern The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
~ Charles M. Schwab Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them through his deeds.
~ Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
~ David Russell One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
~ Thomas Carlyle We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.
~ Randolph Bourne Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.
~ George Santayana
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