Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
The future is the shape of things to come.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.