Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
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.
When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Pain don't hurt.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
The past is the best prophet of the future.
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
