If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...
I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.