Quotes about life
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“Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“You could spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future but all there will ever be is what's happening here and the decisions we make in this moments which are based in either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect so we never dared the universe for it. I'm saying I'm the proof that you can ask the universe for it. My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was possible for him and so he made a conservative choice instead, he got a safe job as an accountant and when I was 12 years old he was let go from that safe job and our family had to do whatever we could do to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you could fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”

Jim Carrey (1962) Canadian-American actor, comedian, and producer

Love, Fear, Family, Imagination

“Racing, competing, is in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I've been doing it all my life. And it stands up before anything else.”

Ayrton Senna (1960–1994) Brazilian racing driver

Interview at the 1989 Australian Grand Prix, November 1989 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6brLntJE8s

Parting

“One of the conveniences in life is to have less children.”

Ali book Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha

Children

“The life of this world is made up of three days: yesterday has gone with all that was done; tomorrow, you may never reach; but today is for you so do what you should do today.”

Hasan al-Basri (642–728) Iranian Sufi Saint

Quoted in Al-Bayhaqi, Al-Zuhd Al-Kabîr p197

World

“Sometimes, I sit back and look at life from a different angle. Don't know if I'm God's child, or I'm Satan's angel.”

50 Cent (1975) American rapper, actor, businessman, investor and television producer

I'm Supposed to Die Tonight
Song lyrics, The Massacre (2005)

God, Angels

“In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.”

Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899–1990) Norwegian philosopher, mountaineer, and author

Source: The Last Messiah (1933), To Be a Human Being https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4m6vvaY-Wo&t=1110s (1989–90)

Children, World

“Love is like a teacup that every day falls to the ground and breaks to pieces. In the morning the pieces are gathered and with a little moisture and a little warmth, the pieces are glued together, and again there is a little teacup. He who is in love spends life fearing that the terrible day will come when the teacup is so broken that it can no longer mended.”

Subcomandante Marcos (1957) Mexican activist

"Speaking of Love, No Love, and Other Nuisances" (23 December 1995) in Our Word Is Our Weapon

Love, Fear

“I thought that the only action a man could perform without shame was to take his life; that he had no right to diminish himself in the succession of days and the inertic of misery. No elect, I kept telling myself, but those who committed suicide.”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

Suicide, Success

“It's dangerous & humiliating. The whalers killed whales while green peace watched. Now, you don't walk by a child that is being abused, you don't walk by a kitten that is being kicked to death and do nothing. So I find it abhorrent to sit there and watch a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but "bear witness" as they call it. I think it was best illustrated a few years ago, the contradictions that we have, when a ranger in Zimbabwe shot and killed a poacher that was about to kill a black rhinoceros and uh human rights groups around the world said "how dare you? Take a human life to protect an animal". I think the rangers' answer to that really illustrated a hypocrisy. He said "Ya know, if I lived in, If I was a police officer in Herrari and a man ran out of Bark Place Bank with a bag of money and I shot him in the head in front of everybody and killed him, you'd pin a medal on me and call me a national hero. Why is that bag of paper more valued than the future heritage of this nation?" This is our values. WE fight, WE kill, WE risk our lives for things we believe in… Imagine going into Mecca, walk up to the black stone and spit on it. See how far you get. You’re not going to get very far. You’re going to be torn to pieces. Walk into Jerusalem, walk up to that wailing wall with a pick axe, start whacking away. See how far you’re going to get, somebody is going to put a bullet in your back. And everybody will say you deserved it. Walk into the Vatican with a hammer, start smashing a few statues. See how far you’re going to get. Not very far. But each and every day, ya know, people go into the most beautiful, most profoundly sacred cathedrals of this planet, the rainforests of the Amazonia, the redwood forests of California, the rainforests of Indonesia, and totally desecrate & destroy these cathedrals with bulldozers, chainsaws and how do we respond to that? Oh, we write a few letters and protest; we dress up in animal costumes with picket signs and jump up and down; but if the rainforests of Amazonia and redwoods of California, were as, or had as much value to us as a chunk of old meteorite in Mecca, a decrepit old wall in Jerusalem or a piece of old marble in the Vatican, we would literally rip those pieces limb from limb for the act of blasphemy that we’re committing but we won’t do that because nature is an abstraction, wilderness is an abstraction. It has no value in our anthropocentric world where the only thing we value is that which is created by humans.”

Paul Watson (1950) Canadian environmental activist

Death, Money, People, World

“I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.”

Lana Del Rey (1985) American singer-songwriter

Daily Mail (25 January 2012)

Love, People, Hope, Personality

“Nobody asked for life to deal us with these bullshit hands we´re dealt. We gotta take these cards ourselves and flip ém, don´t expect no help!”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Beautiful".
2000s, Relapse (2009)

Help

“In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for it. During the time of my struggle for power it was in the first instance only the Jewish race that received my prophecies with laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership of the State, and with it that of the whole nation, and that I would then among other things settle the Jewish problem. Their laughter was uproarious, but I think that for some time now they have been laughing on the other side of their face. Today I will once more be a prophet: if the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevizing of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!”

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party

Speech to the Reichstag, 30 January 1939, as quoted at The History Place http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/threat.htm. <br class="br">1930s

War, World, Problem, Thinking

“Poetry, it's one of the most pretty nicknames we give to life.”

Jacques Prevért (1900–1977) French poet, screenwriter

Attributed

“When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence.”

Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899–1990) Norwegian philosopher, mountaineer, and author

The Last Messiah [Den sidste Messias] (1933)

Death, Nature, Suicide

“Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation…. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.”

Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005) Feminist writer

Speech at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (September 26, 1975). "The Root Cause", ch. 9, Our Blood (1976).

Love, Lovers

“Measure a man by his actions fully, from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about, because you know better than that.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)

Music

“The thinking in the show, the hacker thinking of how do you approach every problem, I think they're hacking life more than they're hacking systems.”

Walter O'Brien (1975) Irish businessman, founder of Scorpion Computer Services

Scorpion's Origin

Problem, Thinking

“Trapped in life, only escape I know is death.”

E.M.S (1995) Nigerian rapper, singer and record producer

"Hidden"

Death

“Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.”

Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) Marxist revolutionary from Russia

Trotsky's Testament (1940)
Context: Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

Beauty, Evil, Future

“Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness.”

Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) Austrian physicist

As quoted in The Observer (11 January 1931); also in Psychic Research (1931), Vol. 25, p. 91
Context: Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness. Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

Thinking

“I love Leslie. She's super imaginative and creative and just full of life. And really has fun in everything she does.”

AnnaSophia Robb (1993) American actress, singer, and model

О повести «Мост в Терабитию»

Love, Imagination

“Life's not about waiting for the storm to pass… it's about learning to dance in the rain. ”

Вивиан Грин (1979) American musician

Learning, Waiting, Dance, Motivational

“Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask – you are exhibiting your past life on your body.”

Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician

Time, Past, Tattoo

“You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.”

Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician

Happiness, Way, Change

“Live your life, listen to your music way to loud, be crazy and as different as you want to be and always remember you are not alone.”

Andrew Biersack (1990) American singer-songwriter

Music, Way

“Success in life consists of standing without shame before God.”

Charbel Makhlouf (1828–1898) Lebanese Maronite monk and saint

Love is a Radiant Light: The Life & Words of Saint Charbel (2019)

God, Success

“Behold, my brothers, the spring has come; the earth has received the embraces of the sun and we shall soon see the results of that love! Every seed has awakened and so has all animal life. It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves, to inhabit this land.”

Sitting Bull (1831–1890) Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man

GoodReads https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5712889.Sitting_Bull <br class="br">Attributed quotes

Love, Making love, Spring, Sun

“Each of us has a particular way of looking at the world, of interpreting events and the actions of people around us. This is our attitude, and it determines much of what happens to us in life. If our attitude is essentially fearful, we see the negative in every circumstance. We stop ourselves from taking chances. We blame others for mistakes and fail to learn from them. If we feel hostile or suspicious, we make others feel such emotions in our presence. We sabotage our career and relationships by unconsciously creating the circumstances we fear the most. The human attitude, however, is malleable. By making our attitude more positive, open, and tolerant of other people, we can spark a different dynamic—we can learn from adversity, create opportunities out of nothing, and draw people to us. We must explore the limits of our willpower and how far it can take us.”

Robert Greene (1959) American author

Chap. 8 : Change Your Circumstances by Changing Your Attitude
The Laws of Human Nature (2018)

Hostility, People, World, Fear

“If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.”

Daisaku Ikeda (1928) Japanese writer

Love, World, Beauty, Wedding

“Respect for human dignity is a foundation for friendship, happiness, and the meaning of life.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Friendship, Happiness

“Its okay to tell a lie but believing in your own lies makes you the first victim, you become your own enemy which limits ability to think progressively towards success in life.”

Hamis Kiggundu (1984) Ugandan business magnate, Internet entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author

Its okay to tell a lie but believing in your own lies makes you the first victim, you become your own enemy which limits ability to think progressively towards success in life. <br class="br">Quoted from his first book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_and_Failure_Based_on_Reason_and_Reality, "Success and Failure Based on Reason and Reality" https://www.amazon.co.uk/SUCCESS-FAILURE-BASED-REASON-REALITY/dp/9970983903/ on Amazon, P.124 (July 2018)

Lie, Thinking, Success

“Death is our best motivator in life. The idea of dying or not seeing the sun tomorrow will keep you up on your toes.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Death, Motivation, Idea, Sun

“Every entrepreneur is either a socialist, anarchist, or a communist. Meaning, you are not willing to depend upon an individual who tells you what to do and how to live your life. Your boss represent the capitalist regime.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Dependency

“Finally, the benefits of knowing thyself are —You won’t be clouded by the love of life, flatterers can’t arouse your mind, good/bad will appear to be the same before your eyes, pleasure and pain will lose their meanings, the sense of sins and death will vanish away and you will end up having the sense of immortality.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Love, Death, Pain, Pleasure

“It is without doubt, nowadays, that many students lack the ability to know or find their true passions in life; after all the criticism they went through. Whether it is at school, college, university or any learning environment.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

School, Learning, Universe, Passion

“When love is your motto. Even heaven will not deny you success in your life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Love, Success

“All you need in life is full freedom, then peace will come by itself.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Peace, Freedom

“By feeling the sunshine, or pleasure, we end up forgetting all of our miseries, or pains in life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Pain, Pleasure, Feeling, Forgetting

“His life had been a sum of half-hearted decisions.”

José Baroja book El hombre del terrón de azúcar y otros cuentos

Decision, Heart

“There are 2 rules in life:
Number 1- Never quit
Number2- Never forget rule number 1.”

Duke Ellington (1899–1974) American jazz musician, composer and band leader

Forgetting

“Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Fear

“I have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

Variant: My faith demands - this is not optional - my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I can, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.

Faith, Chance

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Variant: Life can only be understood going backward, but must be lived going forward.

Wise, Deep, Life, Moving On

“The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

Death, Question, Problem

“Many people say, "Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life." They're paralyzed by the fear that they don't know exactly how to turn their dreams
into reality. And as a result, they never make the decisions that could make their lives into the masterpieces they deserve to be. I'm here to tell you that it's not important initially to know how
you're going to create a result. What's important is to decide you will find a way, no matter what.”

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

Love, People, Fear, Dreams

“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

Star, Tear, Sun, Cry

“When You've lost it all…. that's when you realize that Life is Beautiful.”

Nikki Sixx (1958) American musician

Variant: When You've lost it all.... thats when you realize that Life is Beautiful.
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star

Beauty

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita

Source: Lolita

Soul, Light

“Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

Calvero's answer to Terry's question: "What is there to fight for?" in Limelight (1952)
Context: Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. … The trouble is you won't fight. You've given up. But there's something just as inevitable as death. And that's life. Think of the power of the universe — turning the Earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you — if you'll only have the courage and the will to use it.

Beauty

“There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.”

Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist

Truth

“We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

This Business of Living (1935-1950)
Variant: The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Source: The Burning Brand: Diaries, 1935-1950

Memory

“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.”

Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.

Friendship, Sun

“People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

People, Feeling, Thinking, Reality

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer

Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

Wisdom, Knowledge, Science, Wise

“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

People, Waiting

“There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life in dreams and it's helped me appreciate death more.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Death, Dreams, Help

“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Case of Identity

Source: A Case of Identity

“Growth is the only evidence of life.”

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Apologia pro Vita Sua http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/newman/apologia1.html (1864).

Life

“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Leadership

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

Light

“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is… at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away…”

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer

Love

“It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.”

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) American artist

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

Variant: The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Love, Happiness, Beauty, Home

“Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.”

George Strait (1952) American country music singer, actor and music producer

Variant: Life is not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.

Goodbye, Cute, Romantic, Wedding

“The purpose of life…is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Foreword (January 1960)
You Learn by Living (1960)

Fear, Wise, Deep, Attitude

“We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived."”

M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American psychiatrist

Truth, Problem

“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

Source: Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything

Love, Parting, Cute, Heart Touching

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Source: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

Imagination, Thinking, Motivational, Success

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

Love, Valentine's Day, For Him, For Wife

“People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose: I was chosen to be a dancer, and, with that, you live all your life.”

Martha Graham (1894–1991) American dancer and choreographer

I Am A Dancer (1952)
Source: Blood Memory

People

“The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain”

Padre Pio (1887–1968) Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic

Pain, Beauty, Soul, Flowers

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

Variant: Above all, be the heroine of your own life, not the victim.

For women, Courageous, Hope, Positive

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life”

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist

Courage, Motivational, Success, Courageous

“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”

Norman Cousins (1915–1990) American journalist

History, Idea, Birth

“However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.”

Miguel ángel Asturias book Men of Maize

Source: Men of Maize

Feeling, Time

“When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Smile, Cry

“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”

Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman

Motivational, Wise, Deep, Success

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Source: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations - 1841-1844

Motivational, Wise, Deep, Happy

“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

"In Blackwater Woods"
American Primitive (1983)
Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1

Love, World, Time, Dependency

“In capitalist society, providing it develops under the most favorable conditions, we have a more or less complete democracy in the democratic republic. But this democracy is always hemmed in by the narrow limits set by capitalist exploitation and consequently always remains, in effect, a democracy for the minority, only for the propertied classes, only for the rich. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slaveowners. Owing to the conditions of capitalist exploitation, the modern wage slaves are so crushed by want and poverty that “they cannot be bothered with democracy,” “cannot be bothered with politics”; in the ordinary, peaceful course of events, the majority of the population is debarred from participation in public and political life. The”

Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution

Source: The State and Revolution (1917), Ch. 5
Context: Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich – that is the democracy of capitalist society. If we look more closely into the machinery of capitalist democracy, we see everywhere, in the "petty" – supposedly petty – details of the suffrage (residential qualifications, exclusion of women, etc.), in the technique of the representative institutions, in the actual obstacles to the right of assembly (public buildings are not for "paupers"!), in the purely capitalist organization of the daily press, etc., etc., – we see restriction after restriction upon democracy. These restrictions, exceptions, exclusions, obstacles for the poor seem slight, especially in the eyes of one who has never known want himself and has never been in close contact with the oppressed classes in their mass life (and nine out of 10, if not 99 out of 100, bourgeois publicists and politicians come under this category); but in their sum total these restrictions exclude and squeeze out the poor from politics, from active participation in democracy.

Peace, Democracy, Freedom

“Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your property, your office. But as I've grown older I've become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can't see -- the love you share with others, your inner purpose, your comfort with who you are.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

Love, Cars, Housing, Wealth

“Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing.
If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

Communication, Learning, Parting

“When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.”

Amos Oz book A Tale of Love and Darkness

Source: A Tale of Love and Darkness

People, Books, Way, Chance

“Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.”

Louis Zamperini (1917–2014) Italian-American middle distance runner

Source: Devil at My Heels

God, Hope, Fight, Parting

“A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.”

Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

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Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist.
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Variant: Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through.
If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.
Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

Death, Way