To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
If you don’t know where you’re going, any road’ll take you there.
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
The world is not a wish-granting factory.
Life is long, if you know how to use it.
You are not your mind.
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.
As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.