“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.”
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.
“The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.”
“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.”
“Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.”
“Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.”
“Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.”
“Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.”
“I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.”
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself.”
“There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.”
“Life itself is the proper binge.”
“Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.”
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”