"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much."
"All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they’re alive."
"Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future."
"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from."
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. "
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined."
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives!"
"I Have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these, the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art ."
"Choose whether you will live or complain/mope/whine/cope."
"You are given the gift of life in order to discover what your gift *in* life is. You will complete your mission when you figure out what your mission is. This is not a paradox. This is the way."
"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life."
"Acquiring things will rarely bring you deep satisfaction. But acquiring experiences will."
"We are not bodies that temporarily have souls. We are souls that temporarily have bodies."
"It is not the length of life, but depth of life."
"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops."
"Work to become, not to acquire."