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For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

Listen to me instead of your financial manager: It’s okay to spend money, to save it, to give it away, to worry over it. It’s just money. Your only enemy in life is time. Do be miser with time: hoard it, treasure it, don’t squander a single minute of it.

Perfectionism and optimalism are not distinct ways of being, an either-or choice, but rather they coexist in each person. And while we can move from perfectionism toward optimalism, we never fully leave perfectionism behind and never fully reach optimalism ahead. The optimalism ideal is not a distant shore to be reached but a distant star that guides us and can never be reached. As Carl Rogers pointed out, ‘The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination

Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.

A myth is a fantasy, a preferred lie, a foundational story, a hypnotic trance, an identity game, a virtual reality, one that can be either inspirational or despairing. It is a story in which I cast myself; it is my inner cinema, the motion picture of my inner reality - one that moves all the time. No diagnosis can fix the myth, no cure can settle it, because our inner life is precisely what, in us, will not lie still.

As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.

It may look perfect, but that's one thing I have learned about life is that it isn't always what it looks.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

Life is a journey, photography is thy shepherd.

Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.

Success in life is not how well we execute Plan A; it's how smoothly we cope with Plan B.

Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.

To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule. To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing.

I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of life apart from Him?

When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.

Trying to talk somebody out of the stuff that they enjoy in life is like trying to talk them out of their faith or their sexuality. It’s a pointless exercise that can never be anything but acrimonious and will only highlight unnecessary amounts of difference about things that ultimately don’t really matter. Buy the steak you like, worship the god you love, neck with the people that you treasure and don’t worry about the numbers.