Quotes on Life

Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

The muse doesn't come without being called.

And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

Perhaps that is what life is all about—the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in order to explain it, or contain it. Simply in order to feel it. Because in that recognition of the sublime, we see for a moment the entire universe in the palm of our hand. And in that moment, we touch the face of God.

I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains and a tranquil mind upon reaching their summits, as though I had escaped from the disappointments and unkindness of life and emerged above them into a new world, a better world.

The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will be the lonely ridge, the dancing beck, the silent forest; always there will be the exhilaration of the summits. These are for the seeking, and those who seek and find while there is still time will be blessed both in mind and body.

Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.

Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here

I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased

I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it

You have the RIGHT to change your mind