Life and Existence

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Help us to be thankful for this day and every day and treat each one as a precious gem to be filled to the full with meaning and with love.

I wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

No road is too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; and no honors are too distant for the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Resolve says, ‘I will.’ The man says, ‘I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky and too difficult. But it’s my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Fortune favors the brave.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Self-knowledge is best learned, not by contemplation, but by action. Strive to do your duty and you will soon discover of what stuff you are made.

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

He, who moves not forward, goes backward.