The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or thingsLife is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes … the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules … You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things … They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius …
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.
In order to write about life first you must live it.
The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
The secret of happiness, you see is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!
Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.
Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
I like criticism. It makes you strong.
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.
Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
Live for each second without hesitation.
Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
When it is obvious that goals can’t be reached, don’t adjust the goals, but adjust the action steps.
