Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to read more

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when you need read more

Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when you need a rest. You know what to get worked up about and what to get rid of. And you know when it's time to take care of yourself, for yourself. To do something that makes you stronger, faster, more complete. Because you know it's never too late to have a life. And never too late to change one.

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

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

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world read more

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. -Indian saying.

With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the read more

With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built as we discern.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if read more

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.

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life read more

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length read more

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as
well.