To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Pearl S. Buck
Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia
What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
Barbara Kingsolver
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
No one wants advice - only corroboration.
John Steinbeck
Life is what is happening while you are busy making other plans.
John Lennon
At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
W. H. Auden
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
Gloria Steinem
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Gilda Radner
Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.
Christopher Reeve
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Marcus Aurelius
You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
Lauren Bacall
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Richard Bach
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
Leo Buscaglia
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
Rumi
Our lives teach us who we are.
Salman Rushdie
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Viktor Frankl
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Nietzsche
My dad used to tell me, 'Check the price, son.' Check the price, kids, check the price because there is a price to be paid for whatever you do in life, whether it is good or it is bad. Before you do something, ask yourself is it worth the price you have to pay?
Larry Holmes,
Heavyweight Champion
Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.
Julia Cameron
Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.
Joseph Campbell
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Rainer Maria Rilke
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Viktor Frankl
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.
George Carlin
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Willa Cather
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it [is] he who is asked.
Viktor Frankl
Real compassion kicks butt and takes names. If you are not ready for this fire, then find a New Age, sweetness- and-light, perpetually smiling teacher . . . But stay away from those who practice real compassion because they will fry your ass, my friend.
Ken Wilber
The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
The status quo sucks.
George Carlin
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Jimmy Carter
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Joseph Campbell
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Willa Cather
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Tom Robbins
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Rumi
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you... Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question: Does this path have a heart? If the path does, it is good. If not, it is of no use.
Carlos Castenada
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Charlie Chaplin
Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the tenacity to ride a rough road, and the patience to learn deep love over time.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
Barbara Kingsolver
Life itself is the proper binge.
Julia Child
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
Noam Chomsky
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Colette
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman
The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.
Alfred Adler
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Willa Cather
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Colette
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
Stephen R. Covey
Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.
Richard Bach
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen R. Covey
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
Walter Cronkite
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
e. e. cummings
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us-and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.
Louisa May Alcott
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
James A. Michener
When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.
Bill Moyers
I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillor
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
Richard Bach
Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.
Tori Amos
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
Woody Allen
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
Isaac Asimov
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
Og Mandino
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
Thomas Merton
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
James A. Michener
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
W. H. Auden
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
James A. Baldwin
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Lucille Ball
If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
Drew Barrymore
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Ken Kesey
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
Julia Cameron
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Willa Cather
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
Barbara Kingsolver
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
Conventionality is not morality.
Charlotte Bronte
The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is.
Lenny Bruce
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Pearl S. Buck
So much of this world is based on illusion, temporariness, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.
Gillian Anderson
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Richard Bach
To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.
Isaac Asimov
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
James A. Baldwin
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
St. Francis of Assisi
You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.
W. H. Auden
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Garrison Keillor
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Jane Austen
Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask but when we are challenged to be what we can be.
Morris Adler
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitudes in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. And there were always choices to make, Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to the powers which threatened to rob you of your self, you inner freedom; which determined whether or not you would become the plaything of circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity to become molded into the form of the typical inmate.
Victor Frankl
I learned . . . that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
Brenda Ueland
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
Richard Bach
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
Barbara Kingsolver
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
Joan Baez
The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
Josephine Baker
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
James A. Baldwin
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein
Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
Jimmy Carter