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Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.
Do some interesting things that you have never done before! Add more colours to your life; enrich your existence with every kind of oddities!
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.
The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.
A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative.
There are some moments in man's life that looking back might cause him fall into the precipice! At those moments, man must just look forward!
Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him.
It is far wiser to ask for a question than an answer. When you think you have all the answers, it simply means you have run out of questions.
The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.
We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.
And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.
You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, this you will become.
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?
Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.
Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.
One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole
Long you live and high you fly. And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry. And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.
If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.
The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people.
Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.
I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Now. Now is the most important time of all of your young lives. And what does now stand for - N-O-W? No Other Way. That's the only time - NOW!
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
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.
You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you. Shouldn't you take the time right now to figure out what that life is all about?
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.
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.
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.
A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.
Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk.
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now.
Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.
Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto.