“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
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.
“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.”
“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”
“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”
“Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.”
“I need drama in my life to keep making music.”
“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.”
“Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.”
“Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.”
“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.”