Life

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.

It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Every man is the son of his own works.

Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.

Well, there's a remedy for all things except death.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Have no fear of perfection — you'll never reach it.

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being Salvador Dalí.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

You become responsible forever for what you've tamed.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves.

Error is also fine, as long as we don't stay in it.

To do what you love — that is freedom.

The secret of life is to take the good things when they come.

Only he who knows his weakness will ever become strong.

Old age is only bearable if one has not lost the desire to become young again.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are stronger at the broken places.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.

We see things not as they are, but as we are.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

The first condition of immortality is death.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Have you noticed that the easiest people to get along with are those who agree with you?

Be like water making its way through cracks.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

I learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

Peace begins with a smile.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment — is to live dangerously.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Everything you can imagine is real.

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Your past does not equal your future.

It is not what we get, but who we become, what we contribute — that gives meaning to our lives.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

The major key to your better future is you.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

War does not determine who is right — only who is left.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Youth is wasted on the young.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

I can resist anything except temptation.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

People often say motivation doesn't last. Neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.