I am about to learn what it's like to live here..
Having experienced everything one time already made it easier the second time around..
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it..
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating..
What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl t….
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth..
Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do..
Most of us, when asked to gauge the richness of our lives, think immediately of people. Those who have cried with us, laughed with us, and shaped who….
The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves..
There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet..
Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had before..
You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's..
It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the s….
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty..
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig h….
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune..
Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better, Philomene said, what is good enough slips away..
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulne….
It doesn't matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom..
What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world..
The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you should, or some….