“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”
“If you don’t identify where you want to go, the road to get there stays hidden.”
“Everything significant started insignificantly.”
“So the day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.”
“Life is wasted on the living.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
“The lower you fall, the higher you’ll fly.”
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it’s our job to invent something better.”
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.”
