Quotes about life
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We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to follow.
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.
Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.
There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I'm almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn't failing, it's getting too comfortable. Every day, we're writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that's made all the difference.
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation — veneer isn't worth anything.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.