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The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

Change, Life, light

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

Life, nature, purpose, Sequoia

I want to be all used up when I die.

death, Life, purpose

If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.

death, Life, nature

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.

self-discovery, Self-Responsibility

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Decisions, Ease, Life

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

death, legacy, Life

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person’s belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

Happiness, income, Success, value

Art is the proper task of life.

art, Life, purpose

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Life, Success, youth

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country’s life and I took it.

Immigrant, Life, opportunity

My trade and art is to live.

art, Life, purpose

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

Change, Life, power

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

death, Life, old age