If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.
This life we think we’re living isn’t real. It’s just a shadow play, and I for one will be glad when the lights go out on it. In the dark, all the shadows disappear.
The rule of life was that the boys got to decide which girls were pretty; it didn’t really matter how ugly they were themselves.
Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men.
Philosophers have debated the meaning of life for centuries, rarely coming to the same conclusion.
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.[Любовь есть жизнь. Всё, всё, чтò я понимаю, я понимаю только потому, что люблю.]
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious-dear than life.
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
