Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
History is the devil's scripture.
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
