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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), Where I Lived, and What I Lived ForIn context
- Advice
I love a broad margin to my life.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), SoundsIn context
- Time
Life is to entered upon with courage.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859
- Courage
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973The Two Towers, Gandalf (remembered by Frodo)
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948A New Earth (2005)
When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948A New Earth (2005)
To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one’s sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869), Bk. XIV, ch. 15
- God
- Love
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894), Chapter XII, Conclusion—Repent Ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand
- God
One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud!
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Confession (1882), Ch. 4
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910War and Peace (1869), Bk. XII, Ch. 16
- Love
I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.
Lily Tomlinborn 1939The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
- Comedy
Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
Anthony Trollope1815–1882The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867), Vol. II, ch. 67
- Love
Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
Leon Trotsky1879–1940Trotsky’s Testament (1940)
The death of one man: that is a catastrophe. Hundreds of thousands of deaths: that is a statistic!
KTKurt Tucholsky1890–1935Often credited to Joseph Stalin
I don’t take no stock in dead people.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter IIn context
- Comedy