If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?"
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.
Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.
I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Life is not a dress rehearsal - wake up every day excited to live out your purpose.
Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.
We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more.
Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.
Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.
The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.
If I'm using Nonviolent Communication I never, never, never hear what somebody thinks about me. Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you'll live longer. You'll enjoy life more. Hear the truth. The truth is that when somebody's telling you what's wrong with you, the truth is they have a need that isn't getting met. Hear that they're in pain. Don't hear the analysis.
I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
Don't focus on what's wrong. Things may not be perfect, but be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day. Live each day like it could be your last.
When you know clearly what you want, you'll wake up every morning excited about life.
With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activity…We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane place where mankind can live in liberty…We must accept these things with passion. It means that we must live imaginatively.
Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.
The trail compels you to know yourself and to be yourself, and puts you in harmony with the universe. It makes you glad to be living. It gives health, hope, and courage, and it extends that touch of nature which tends to make you kind.
Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people.
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