For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
I want to feel my life while I'm in it.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
