Life and Existence

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

Is the oak better than the acorn which is its fullness and completion?

Is the oak better than the acorn which is its fullness and completion?

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your BELIEF will help create the fact.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Let us become the change we seek in this world.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.

Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.

When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Life can only be understood backwards…But it must be lived forwards.

Life can only be understood backwards…But it must be lived forwards.

We cannot put off living until we’re ready. Life is fired at us point blank.