Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Nature’s laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

Civilization… wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we’ve created ourselves? Who’s to blame, who’s to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.

You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.