Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
Life does not agree with philosophy: there is no happiness which is not idleness and only the useless is pleasurable.[Жизнь расходится с философией: счастья нет без праздности, доставляет удовольствие только то, что не нужно.]
Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
Life and death are too resolute, too implacable to be accidental.
Let’s not forget that small emotions are the great captains of our lives, and that these we obey without knowing it.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
It is necessary to make a dream of life, and to make of a dream a reality.
It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion.
It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative – whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.
