“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”
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“Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.”
“This is the highest wisdom that I own: freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”
“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
“I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
“I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.”
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”
“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.”
“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. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”
“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.”
“Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.”
“Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.”
“The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.”
“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”