Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

Lists have always implied social order.

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'

If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.