Life and Existence

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are gardeners.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are gardeners.

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

All glory comes from daring to begin.

The one without dreams is the one without wings.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

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

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

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is here for the sake of other men.

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is here for the sake of other men.

Life is no `brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Life is no `brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Life is no `brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.