“Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.”
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“Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.”
“There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.”
“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”
“Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.”
“Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.”
“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.”
“Do every act of your life as if it were your last.”
“It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.”
“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.”
“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.”
“It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.”
“He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.”“As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.”
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.”
“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”
“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”
“I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.”
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”
“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.”