When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to the happiness that you can give out.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say
yes.
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.
I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.