Life and Existence

Life is a verb. Life is not a noun. It is really “living” not “life.” It is not love, it is loving. It is not relationship, it is relating. It is not a song, it is singing. It is not a dance, it is dancing. See the difference, savor the difference.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

There is a women at the beginning of all great things.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings, and all beings in his own self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Marriage is a friendship recognized by the police.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure, nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.