I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Love is energy of life.
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.