Quotes

  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
- Oscar Wilde

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where there is love there is life.
- Mahatma Gandhi

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
- H. L. Mencken

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
- James Branch Cabell

"Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were."
- Richard Paul Evans

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In youth we learn; in age we understand.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word “love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace – not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
- James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.
- Agatha Christie

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

- Pearl S. Buck

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain