Quotes on Life

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress. The only one who doesn't struggle is the one who doesn't grow. So if you are struggling right now, see it as a terrific sign - celebrate your struggle.

Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much.

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

If you listen to your soul you will know what is "best" for you, because what is best for you is what is true for you.