The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David ThoreauRead
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.
Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me. _x000D_ Today, I choose to give love.
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Take a good look at your life right now. If you don't like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would be if you were living this preferred life. Notice the differences in how you behave and present yourself; allow yourself to spend several seconds breathing in the new image, expanding your energy into this.
The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.
Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness.
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