The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue a wonderful living side by side can grow if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
In the last analysis the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
What you get is a living what you give is a life.
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief that is a fate more terrible than dying.
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy healthy and rewarding life.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
I don't believe in guilt I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price peace-at-any-price safety-first instead of duty-first the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
We love life not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Whatever your life's work is do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living the dead and the unborn could do it no better.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Life is wasted on the living.
This life is worth living we can say since it is what we make it.
Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.