Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.
There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game.
Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.
Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight till it be tomorrow.
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial’s point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin’s fee.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.
Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.
The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.
I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.