Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it. _ Orhan Pamuk

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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. — Simone De Beauvoir

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If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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You can have it all. Just not all at once. ― Oprah Winfrey

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Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

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This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again. ― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau

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