Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
We all owe death a life.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them
Pain don't hurt.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
