"Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?"
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"Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly."
"Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly."
"Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom."
"The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later."
"Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility."
"Everything has boundaries. the same holds true with thought. you shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them. that's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries. what's really important in life is always the things that are secondary."
"The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny."
"I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer."
"All life is a delusion of the senses."
"Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends."
"The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have."
"Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others."
"Life is not that complicated."
"Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality."
"As far as I'm concerned, the happiest time of my life is now. There's a future and I can't wait to get to it."
"The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy."
"The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor."
"He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others."
"Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction."