
To live a life half dead, a living death.
- Topic: Life, Purpose
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
Do not feel certain of anything.
The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.
Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.
This is the law: The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.
A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.
As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
This is the thing that I was born to do.
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
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.
