Life

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Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any realized joy could be.

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At this time of life even a day makes a difference, the only saving grace is that sometimes things improve.

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of great distress.

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Of course it was cause and effect, but in the necessity with which follows the other lay all tragedy of life.

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I don't think I shall live to a very old age anyway. I've always had that feeling, but if you can stop your body falling apart you've won half the battle. I believe in that adage, You are what you eat. If you eat a colossal amount of potatoes, you end up looking like one. All lumpy and knobbly-kneed. I'm not a vegetarian or anything, but I prefer fish to meat and I don't drink milk or eat a lot of starchy foods.

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And not only does one not seize at once and retain an impression of works that are really great, but even in the content of any such work (as befell me in the case of Vinteuil's sonata) it is the least valuable parts that one at first perceives. Less disappointing than life is, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

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Life is a roar of bargain and battle, but in the very heart of it there rises a mystic spiritual tone that gives meaning to the whole. It transmutes the dull details into romance. It reminds us that our only but wholly adequate significance is as parts of the unimaginable whole. It suggests that even while living we are living to ends outside ourselves.