The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

Life is full of questions. Idiots are full of answers.

What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our heads of what it’s supposed to be.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

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

There might be very primitive life in our solar system—single-cell animals, that sort of thing.

The experience of being in space didn’t change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements but rather with the things we do for the people we love and esteem.

The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.