If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Life is much like writing in ink : All you can do is read over your past and look forward to a blank page for your future that will soon be filled with words that can never be erased.
you could hit someone over the head with a hammer and they would say, "gee, thanks, it feels so much better now that you stopped"... Their glass is a keg, and over flowing with the values of true life. If we all acted a little bit more like him, the world would truely be a better place.
Money comes and goes, but people last for a lifetime.
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
Don't pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger people. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.
If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter...
Life is like a ladder, the higher you climb, the more expansive your view is.
Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.
There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best we know.
It is not 'seeing' the light that impacts one's life; it is never 'ceasing' to see the light that impresses one's life, spirit, heart and soul.
I used to want to pack as much as I could into my life, but now I realize it's more about quality of life than quantity.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot.
To live your life to the fullest, you've got to be a master of economics...after all, time's demand is always far exceeding it's supply.
What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.
If life were easy, then it would be boring.
Live your own life, for you will die your own death.
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
It is taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything.
Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.
Seven sins of life: Politics without principle. Commerce without morality. Wealth without work. Education without character. Science without humanity. Pleasure without conscience. Worship without sacrifice.
Give a man a fish and he won't starve for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he won't starve for his entire life.