Life's Secret Quotes

I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.

You want to know the secret of life? It is to breathe in and out. And the mystery of life? You never know when it is going to end.

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.

The secret of life is to have no fear.

What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.

Life, after all, was a secret with the self. The more one gave out, the less there remained for the center--that center which she coveted for herself and recognized instantly in others. Fruits had it, the very heart of, say, a cherry, where the true worth and flavor lay. Some of course were flawed or hollow in there. Many, in fact.

The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the scientists have not discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens when a thought takes shape in words.

We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.

All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.