Life Quotes

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad itseems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned thatyou can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things:a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned thatregardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they'regone from your life. I've learned that making a living is not the same thing asmaking a life. I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on bothhands; you need to be able to throw some things back. I've learned that wheneverI decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I'velearned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned thatevery day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, orjust a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what youdid, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime..."

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

Who said nights were for sleep?

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

Resist much, obey little.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round & wet & crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

If you follow all of the rules, you'll miss all of the fun.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

Find what you love and let it kill you.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

love the life you live. live the life you love.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

Happiness is self-connectedness.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you—just listen to The voice that speaks inside.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Be curious, not judgmental.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

If you are sad, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

We think too much and feel too little.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can't buy.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught"”in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too"”in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well"”or ill?

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Creativity takes courage.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Life is mostly froth and bubble,Two things stand like stone.Kindness in another's trouble,Courage in your own.

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there

It takes a very long time to become young.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

Sex is emotion in motion.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

Living with integrity means...not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships; asking for what you want and need from others; speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension; behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values; making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don't want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you're doing here. Believe in kissing.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Life is too short to learn German

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

Children see magic because they look for it.

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

Let the world change you and you can change the world

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

He was part of my dream, of course — but then I was part of his dream, too.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.

Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

My life is my message.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

I am always doing what I can't do so I may learn how to do it.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Art is the proper task of life.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself......

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors."

Be so good they can't ignore you.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

We cannot achieve our wildest dreams by remaining who we are

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing. It's ok though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8-color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation.. so when I meet someone who's an 8-color type.. I'm like, "hey girl, magenta!" and she's like, "oh, you mean purple!" and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, "no - I want magenta!"

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

How many people you bless is how you measure success

I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it.

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, Who never did, Who won't anymore, And who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Life's like a play it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

All I ever wanted was a world without maps.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

Life is not fair, get used to it

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

Never complain. Never explain.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

The best revenge is massive success.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.