“I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.”
Life is the subject that contains all other subjects. These quotes take on existence itself — its brevity, its beauty, its unfairness, and the stubborn human insistence on finding meaning in it anyway. Big questions, no easy answers.
“You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.”
“I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.”
“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.”
“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.”
“Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.”
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”
“To know nothing is the happiest life.”
“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”
“The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.”
“Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.”
“If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.”
“You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.”
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
“The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.”