Life and Existence

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you somebody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

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 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.

The one without dreams is the one without wings.

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

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.

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

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.