“I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, 'OK, I'm looking back on my life. I want to minimize the number of regrets I have.'”
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“Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.”
“Life is not perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it. And you have to open your heart to what the world can show you. And sometimes it's terrifying. And sometimes it's incredibly beautiful. And I'll take both, thanks.”
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“Without health, life is not life, it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.”
“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
“A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.”
“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”
“Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.”
“Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.”
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“If one day the speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling.”
“You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.”
“Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.”
“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”
“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”
“I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.”
“Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.”
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”