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Life.

Reflections on existence, meaning, and what makes life rich.

“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

“The way you interpret events is closely linked to general assumptions you hold about life.”

Thibaut Meurisse

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.”

“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”

Albert Einstein

“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.”

“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.”

“Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.”

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”

“Death is a fearful thing.”

William Shakespeare

“It may be that your sole purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.”

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

“Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”

“Life grows darker as we go on until only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith.”

“The feeling of 'not being good enough' alone must have killed more dreams than anything else.”

Thibaut Meurisse

“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

“The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.”

Jean Paul Richter

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

“This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.”

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”

Rabindranath Tagore

“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.”

“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.”

“Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.”

“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.”

“It is natural to believe in God when you're alone - quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.”

“It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.”