If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.

No point carrying useless ballast. It won’t change a thing.

Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.

The world, every day, is New. Only for those born in, say, 1870 or so, can there be a meaningful use of the term postmodernism, because for the rest of us we are born and...

The look on his face was something you see only a few times in your life, … This horror grips you, becomes almost unimaginable in your ability to live with it. But that is our...

Choose love and joy as much as you can in each moment and watch your life transform.

I tell people retirement isn’t what you think. You are going to sit around and waste your life, you can only golf so much. To stay young, you have to stay in the mix.

It’s natural to think of one’s own life as a novel (or a movie or a play), and within that narrative we are always the central character. Thoughtful people try to overcome this compulsion, but...

The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.

I exist here, now. I’m not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future. To exaggerate a little, I have no faith that I will still exist...

Live in this moment because this moment is the only thing that’s real and the only time that you can create greatness.

Persistence is the pillar of success.

Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher.

Don’t feel sad. The only certain thing in life… is death itself. She’s free from her body and her soul is ready to take on another new life, so she can continue on until she...

Everyone has the Capacity to Succeed…Ceteris Paribus!

He was pale as only one state on Bhast dictated—not lacking color necessarily or vitality, certainly. Fey white was more comparable to a pearl; the color subtle and the luster soft, but still vibrant. In...

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It’s not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become...

He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose...

Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.

Sticking a straw up your butt won’t get rid of the constipation.

I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life

Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry for himself – art, politics, religion, whatever his medium should be, he knew he was safe now, free from all hysteria – he could accept what was...

silence can be words but words cannot be silence

Love yourself, even a little bit each day, and your life will bloom into infinite joy.

In this world, people actually don’t live a life for themselves but usually live a life for someone they love.

Love the person, not his position.

When I recall memories, it all seems like a film, not a reality.

Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.

My pond life with hydra is over; now I’m into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper..

Even the Us’s are Them’s.

We have the cream of the crop in terms of advance life support.

He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took possession of him. He felt how useless it was to struggle...

To become successful, do the little extra things that ordinary people refuse to do. The little extra hard work, little extra practice, little extra studying and the little extra positive attitude.

But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of mere ill fortune.

It’s not a bad lesson to learn in the bleaker months: how you view a storm is a question of perspective; provided you find the right rock to watch it from, it could be the...

Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.

{Stockton, a playwright who performed plays about Robert Ingersoll, gives the four moments in Ingersoll’s life that shaped him, first being the death of his father, who was a reverend}Despite their opposing religious views, the...

Sometimes I just think depression’s one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there’s so much stuff out there that you have...

Thw world is full of monsters with friendly faces.

Nothing is free even in Freetown. You must pay a price to get a prize.

All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.

You do not reduce or eliminate your concerns by crying, shouting or proving you are the victim of whatever happened in your life.

My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she’d let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to...

Let me love or let me die.

Whoever controls the money controls you.

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

Normal doesn’t happen overnight when the world around and between you has always been off-balance.

You’re not here just to make a living but for appreciating and expressing gratitude for the abundance and beauty of life that you are enjoying.

Many a time, we live life without having access to the thoughts of how the hours of yesterday were spent. This comes to play because of lack of self-analysis and does not help in any...

A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth’s atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth’s external crust, and finally of the origin and development of...