Quotes on Life

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.

I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; there is, in the world, no other will than this force which impels everything to life, a life even broader and higher.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing.... Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve.

My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.

The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is nothing in the world, that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.