We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again
The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.
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.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
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.
Live your life and forget your age.