Life

There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

The illuminable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.

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

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat: he stores up a lot of poison.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.

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.

The one without dreams is the one without wings.