“The less life in a person, the more he will try to live off your life.”

“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

“The person who lives life fully, glowing with life's energy, is the person who lives a successful life.”

Daisaku Ikeda (1928) Japanese writer

“It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

“One cannot escape from the effects of one's past karma. But if a person lives a prayerful life, he gets off with only the prick of a thorn in the leg where he was to suffer from a deep cut.”

Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna

“I followed [[w:Vivekananda|Swami Vivekananda’s teachings when I was young. He said, this life is short, its vanities are transient. He alone lives who lives for others. I think more than any other country, in our country, this is very important today. ‘Others’ also includes family members, because charity begins at home. But if you are an educated person, do something which can help improve the lives and livelihoods of your fellow people. And then towards the latter part of your life, you feel more satisfied that you have one something not only for yourself or for your family, but you have done something which has made a slight difference in the lives of the less privileged.”

M. S. Swaminathan (1925) Indian scientist

“Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.”

David Cronenberg (1943) Canadian film director, screenwriter and actor

“There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.”

Dion Fortune (1890–1946) British occultist and author

“The less of routine, the more of life.”

Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) American teacher and writer

“Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.”

José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955) Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist