I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

We think too much and feel too little.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.