No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

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.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

A different language is a different vision of life.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

May you live all the days of your life.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Attitude determines the altitude of life.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.