Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
Nature is not human-hearted.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.