Quotes on Life

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. Never lie to yourself.

Living well is the best revenge.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

No one is happy all his life long.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

We no longer see the world as a single entity. We've moved to cities and we think the economy is what gives us our life, that if the economy is strong we can afford garbage collection and sewage disposal and fresh food and water and electricity. We go through life thinking that money is the key to having whatever we want, without regard to what it does to the rest of the world.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.

Many go through life afraid of numbers and upset by numbers. They would rather amble along through life miscounting, miscalculating and, in general, mismanaging their worldly affairs than make friends with numbers.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.

I believe in everything until it's disproved.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.