“If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.”
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 greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.”
“If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.”
“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.”
“The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.”
“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.”
“The lie is a condition of life.”
“I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.”
“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
“We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.”
“Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.”