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

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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

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It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

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A life in association, not a life independent, is the democratic ideal. ― Terry Tempest Williams

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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. — Albert Einstein

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Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told. ― Dean Koontz

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If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. — Oprah Winfrey

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Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

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Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

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You have succeeded in life when all you want is only what you need. —Vernon Howard

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