There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life. Henry David Thoreau
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. Booker T. Washington
It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul. Caroline Kennedy
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. Leo Tolstoy
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. Marianne Williamson
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. Bertrand Russell
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life. Jiddu Krishnamurti
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous. Wayne Dyer
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection. Marilyn Monroe
Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that? Marilyn Monroe
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers! Marilyn Monroe
If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman. Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you. Marilyn Monroe
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. Albert Schweitzer
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Joseph Campbell
I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong. Tom Welling
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Arnold Schwarzenegger