You cannot resist something to which you grant no reality. The act of resisting a thing is the act of granting it life. When you resist an energy, you place it there. The more you resist, the more you make it real-whatever it is you are resisting. " "Every human being is as special as every other human being who has ever lived, lives now, or every will live. You are all meesengers. Every one of you. You are carrying a message to life about life every day. Every hour. Every moment.
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
The best of times is now.
There is no normal life, there's just life.
One does what one can, not what one cannot.
Real life is about reacting quickly to the opportunity at hand, not the opportunity you envisioned. Not thinking and scheming for the future, but letting it happen.
What would come, would come. . . and you would have to meet it, when it did.
To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more.
Trouble is part of your life
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sadness; if I can, how and then, prompt a happier view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow-beings and himself, surely, I shall not have written in vain.
Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
Prosperity Comes When You Do the Right Things with Your Life
Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.
The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does this present life become to him, because he perceives better and sees more clearly the defects of human corruption.
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits!
