Quotes on Loving Life

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual is productive responsible, and energetic, why should her choice in a partner make such a fuss? The government is only too happy to take my tax money and yet they uphold legislation that keeps me a second class citizen. Surely, there should be a tax break for those of us who are robbed of full and equal participation and protection in the life of our nation.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

In spite of everything life is not without hope.

I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.

If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or Mother Theresa, or Malcolm X; if a human being dares to be bigger than the condition into which she or he was born-it means so can you. And so you can try to stretch, stretch, stretch yourself so you can internalize, 'Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a human being, nothing human can be alien to me.' That's one thing I'm learning.

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.