a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.

You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self too.

Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.

Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

This life is nothing but a short, painful dream.

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter.

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace making the best of circumstances.

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.

The good life as I conceive it is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Passion cant sustain itself forever.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.

Life is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes.

Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind to yourself.

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

It is far easier to see brave men die than to hear a coward beg for life.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame give me the man who living makes a name.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.