To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing. It happens only once in a lifetime. To be alive, to know consciously that you are alive, and to relish that knowledge - this is a kind of magic. Or it may be a kind of madness, exhilarating but harmless. - Edna Ferber. View more images...
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. - Georges Bataille. View more images...
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. - Muhammad Ali. View more images...
To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. - Havelock Ellis. View more images...
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives. - Benjamin Franklin. View more images...
Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life. - W. C. Fields. View more images...
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. - Niccolo Machiavelli. View more images...
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. - Phillips Brooks. View more images...
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice - Robert Browning. View more images...
In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal. - Nisami. View more images...
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical. - Eugenio Montale. View more images...
The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves - Newton Diehl Baker. View more images...
Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one. - Vladimir Nabokov. View more images...
Without fear of death, there is no joy in life.
(a taoist saying) - Unknown. View more images...
The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation. - Oliver Goldsmith. View more images...