The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
In the end, everything is a gag.
