Haniel Long Quotes

It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.

'Happy Valley' has really changed things for me.

I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it.

My life has gotten so much better since I turned 40.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

New Year = A New Life! Decide today who you will become, what you will give how you will live.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Life can only be as new as you Choose to be.

... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or nature a death, but nature will collect anyway, and we certainly owe mediocrity nothing, whatever collectivity it purports to advance or at least represent.

Today is a new day. Today is a day for you to begin creating a joyous, fulfilling life.

My life started being awesome five years ago.

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.

How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.