I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Don't let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.