“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
“Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.”
“Do not leave anything where it's not supposed to be.”
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
“Failure is simply a signal to move forward.”
“Fasting is the only, and best tool for longevity across all species. If you deprive a rat of calories, it will live 33% longer.”
“Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping—they called it opportunity.”
“For most people, a good life would be one with a supportive family, great friends, strong skills and knowledge, and good physical and mental health.”
“Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.”
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
“I start where the last man left off.”
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
“I'm not an intellectual, I'm a romantic, a dreamer.”
“If we don't stand for something, we'll fall for anything.”
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
“It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honorably.”
“Life consists of faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and political conflict, and sexual and romantic love, desire, regret and loss.”
“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
“People who work sincerely are the happiest.”
“Small bad guys are hated, big bad guys are admired.”
“The first step to getting anywhere is deciding you're no longer willing to stay where you are.”
“The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote some one who is.”
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
“The time your friends need you is when they're wrong.”
“The true measure of a person's character is how they treat those who can do nothing for them.”
“There is nothing more dangerous than absolute certainty in one's beliefs.”
“They alone live, who live for others.”
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.”
“What a joy it is to do a good deed! And this joy is strongest if no one knows that you have done it.”
“When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.”
“Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.”
“You can't help those who don't want to be helped.”
“Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the comedian is the only thing that makes sense.”
“It is labor itself that constitutes the main factor of happiness. Any enjoyment that does not rely on a hard world will soon become boring.”
“If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.”
“I am convinced that life is ten per cent of what happens to me and ninety per cent of how I react to it.”
“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways: either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“The opposite of good is not evil. It is indifference. The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
“Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson”
“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!”
“The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously.”
“A grievance that can be expressed is not grievance; a lover who can be taken away is not a lover.”
“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
“Find yourself a girl and settle down. Live a simple life in a quiet town. Steady, as she goes.”
“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.”
“I don't know what's right or wrong, but I'm not going to let anyone stand in the way of me trying to figure it out.”
“Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.”
“If you want to preserve your good name, do not praise yourself and do not so much as allow others to praise you.”
“Live your life in such a way that you neither hide nor have a wish to display your life to people.”
“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it—always.”
“But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years—and it opens.”
“One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.”
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
“I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.”
“I don't want to be remembered as just a funny guy. I want to be remembered as a truth teller.”
“The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.”
“The secret of change is to concentrate all your abilities, not to destroy the old, but to build the new.”
“Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
“Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”
“Geniuses are the luckiest people among mortals, because what they have to do is what they want to do.”