Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Life should be great rather than long.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
