love the life you live.live the life you love.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

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.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

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 first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.