
He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.
- Topic: Life, Purpose
- Location: Oceanside, Oregon
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.
At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
He that hunts others, must run himself.
I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.
