Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
To hold, you must first open your hand. Let go.
Life’s biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Nobody loves you when you’re down and out.
All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed – only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.
Be true to yourself. Make each day your masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.
I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
I’ll wait for you forever.
Youth is wasted on the young.
We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
Failure is an event, not a person.
Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.