I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its own storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not everyone's greed.