The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.

We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

I'd always been interested in psychology.

We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.

Everything that gets born dies.

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you you must feel that you can trust them too even when youre in the dark. Even when youre falling.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in.

When you look at it that way you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.