I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
I want to feel my life while I'm in it.
It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams