We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.
Life Quotes
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
— Plato
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.
I allow my intuition to lead my path.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
What matters is the value we've created in our lives, the people we've made happy and how much we've grown as people.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
All things change; nothing perishes.
— Ovid
All great achievements require time.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
I can, therefore I am.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Speak low, if you speak love.
A lot of people give up just before theyre about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.
Life is movement-we breathe, we eat, we walk, we move!
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.
Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
— Napoleon
Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
So much technology, so little talent.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.
— Laozi