Famous Quotes

"Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?"

"People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies."

"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."

"While there's life, there's hope."

"Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty."

"If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will."

"I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear you. I hear all of you. We were here. Our lives matter."

"What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them."

"Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are"

"She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that."

"The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel.I broke something, Old Man.How badly is it broken?It's in a million little pieces.I'm afraid I can't help you.Why?There's nothing you can do.Why?It can't be fixed.Why?It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces."

"I can't. You can't rewrite the past."

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."

"I will be stronger than my sadness."

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."

"Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust."

"One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires."

"It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions."

"Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for."

"There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life."

"The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be."