It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

When I was young, I forgot how to laugh in the cave of Trophonius; when I was older, I opened my eyes and beheld reality, at which I began to laugh, and since then, I have not stopped laughing. I saw that the meaning of life was to secure a livelihood, and that its goal was to attain a high position; that love's rich dream was marriage with an heiress; that friendship's blessing was help in financial difficulties; that wisdom was what the majority assumed it to be; that enthusiasm consisted in making a speech; that it was courage to risk the loss of ten dollars; that kindness consisted in saying, "You are welcome," at the dinner table; that piety consisted in going to communion once a year. This I saw, and I laughed.

The world's greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.

Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.

Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.

Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.

Lo que mucha gente llama amar consiste en elegir una mujer y casarse con ella. La eligen, te lo juro, los he visto. Como si se pudiera elegir en el amor, como si no fuera un rayo que te parte los huesos y te deja estaqueado en la mitad del patio. Vos dir?s que la eligen porque-la-aman, yo creo que es al vesre. A Beatriz no se la elige, a Julieta no se la elige. Vos no eleg?s la lluvia que te va a calar hasta los huesos cuando sal?s de un concierto.

She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out but is hard to define.

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work sunshine exercise soap plenty of fresh air and a happy contented spirit.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation as regulated by wisdom.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.