Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

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.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.