It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. – Joseph Campbell
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. – Vincent Van Gogh
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. – Henry David Thoreau
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. – Aristotle
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life. – Michael Jordan
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. – Aristotle
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. – Anais Nin
There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life. – Henry David Thoreau
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. – Booker T. Washington
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous. – Wayne Dyer
Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify. – Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection. – Marilyn Monroe
