Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
History has shown there are no invincible armies.
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
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.
It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.