Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off of the goal

If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives

He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?
He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder,
And went with half my life about my ways.

Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are?

Life is an affair of people not of places

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears

One always needs readjustment in his life at some or the other time.

In baseball, as in life, the true measure of a person is how they handle adversity

I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents’ footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in – that whole cycle. That’s not just a small-town thing. That’s a life thing.

In literature, we find the universality of human experience

Forever isn’t long at all, Christopher, as long as I’m with you.

Oh Tigger, where are your manners?” “I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations, much is given. Of other generations, much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

I’m not a jack of all trades; I’m a master of many. I don’t feel there is anything I can’t do if I want to

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria…

I’ve made mistakes I could have treated you better I let you get away There goes my happily ever after

We’ll find out what we’re made of When we are called to help our friends in need

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life.

I don’t work, I live… I don’t have a job, I just have a life.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel

My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.

The cure for poverty has a name, in fact: it’s called the empowerment of women. If you give women some control over the rate at which they reproduce, if you give them some say, take them off the animal cycle of reproduction to which nature and some doctrine—religious doctrine condemns them, and then if you throw in a handful of seeds perhaps and some credit, the floor of everything in that village, not just poverty, but education, health, and optimism will increase. It doesn’t matter; try and do it without empowering women, you can’t do it. The benefits are so many.

Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

I don’t aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man

The sight of a child will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons—longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted personal.

One thing you must know—the one thing I have learned is that one must live this life

You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.

What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.

There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that’s exactly the way we want it to be

With what we give, we make a life

Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon,
Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run,
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,
The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life

Art is what you can get away with

The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology.

But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

Act well your part; there all the honor lies.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead

The Oxen and the Axle-Trees A HEAVY WAGON was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen. The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels: “Hullo there! why do you make so much noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out.” Those who suffer most cry out the least.

AN ASS having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices. They replied, “The dew.” The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities

Clumsy jesting is no joke

Liars often set their own trap

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination

Do not let your enemies see your methods, do not let them guess your plans

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched

Justice shines in smoke

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity

In our misfortune lies our strength

The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful

Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and die

The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love

Faith is a state of openness or trust

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.