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- One should count each day a separate life.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
- John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
- Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
- The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
- If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
- Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
- He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
- Sol Hurok
- The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
- Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
- Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.
- Endicott Peabody (1857 - 1944)
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