“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.” 

“You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.” 

“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.” 

“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.” 

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

The one prudence in life is concentration.

Life is our dictionary.

Life is a journey, not a destination

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

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

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.” 

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.” 

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.” 

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.” 

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.” 

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

We ask for long life, but ’tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” 

Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: “Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life”.

Life is like a ship. There's people dancing on a ship.There's a lot of money on the ship, but I cannot integrate on the ship or get equality on the ship.And I never could. I'm just in the galley working and I never could get up to see the captain of the ship.