Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.