I’m not sure what I’ll do, but – well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
By far the best proof is experience.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.
When was the last time you did something for the first time?
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
Never back down from a real challenge. They give the best lessons in life.
I was born to enjoy life. And so it is.
Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses...
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life.
Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.
Only the present moment contains life.
With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.