Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

We don’t need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There’s no one in the world like you. You are amazing.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

No garden is without its weeds.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.

If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?

Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.