Quotes on Life

God grants victory to perseverance.

There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.

I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is.

Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.

Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.

You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.