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Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists.
Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have.
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.
The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.
As an extension of Christ in the lives of his children is the only trend enough for a woman's precious energies.
You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.
This is not the time to shrink back in fear. Move forward in faith. Get up every morning knowing you are gifted.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.
Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?
After all, I wasn't a bad person. I was just doing my best in what had turned out to be a fairly imperfect life.
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.
The race may or may not be to the swift, but tell me, is it likely that the fight will be entrusted to the dead?
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Everything is everything What is meant to be, will be After winter, must come spring Change, it comes eventually
She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the fear which comes from the feeling of helplessness.
He who loves has conquered the world and has no fear of losing anything. True love is an act of total surrender.
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
It only takes a minute to cause hurt but sometimes a lifetime to repair. Be careful with your words and actions.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Lookin back on it at least my pride is in tact cause we said no strings attached and I still got tied up in that
We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken.
In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
There is only one true purpose in life: to wake up from the delusion that you are separate from everything else.
Polish the heart, free the six senses and let them function without obstruction, and your entire body will glow.
I don't dwell on my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it's just a number.
Love's very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle!
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.
One significant thing that you can do for your children is to invest some time into taking them out into nature.
Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?