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The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

But in the end, one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

The future hasn’t happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I’m in.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself.

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don’t have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won’t have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism… are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

I’ve worked with people and I’ve known people that were really competitive but I’ve always said that I take an Elizabeth Bennett philosophy of life – I laugh. I love my job but if it means hurting someone, I won’t do it.

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.