"As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better."

- Steve Maraboli

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"We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other."

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."

- James Joyce, The Dead

"Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become."

- Reinhold Niebuhr

"May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law."

- Immanuel Kant

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake."

- Francis Bacon

"The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do."

- Phillip Brooks

"My soul looked up from the vapid expanse of nothingness to realize that all that ever was, is, and will be was inside this conscious mortal mind."

- Anonymous

"People with a scarcity mentality think there is only so much in the world to go around. It’s as if they see life as a pie. When another person gets a big piece, then they get less. Such people are always trying to get even, to pull others down to their level so they can get an equal or even bigger piece of the pie."

- Stephen Covey

"‘I have done my best.’ That is about all the philosophy of living one needs."

- Lin Yutang

"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people."

- Zig Ziglar (via quotestuff)

"Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it."

- Max Frisch

"Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca