The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.
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There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.
There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.
Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.
If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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.
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
