Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
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.
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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.
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
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.
Diamonds are a girls best friend.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
