“Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.”

“Life Is Too Short to be Small”

“You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.”

“Life is too short to be little.”

“Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.”

"In the end, the money and success that truly last come not to those who focus on such things as goals, but rather to those who focus on mastery and fulfilling their Life’s Task."

"It is your own bad strategies, not the unfair opponent, that are to blame for your failures. You are responsible for the good and bad in your life."

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."

"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies."

“It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.”

“Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.”

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”

“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.”

“What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”

“All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.”

“All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.”

“A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.”

“It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.”

“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”

“Live to the point of tears.”

“Time will prolong time, and life will serve life.”

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

...I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live...