Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.
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The fact that the alarm clock did not ring has already changed many human destinies.
It's only after we have lost everything that we are free to do anything.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Say what you mean, mean what you say. You know, if everybody followed that rule, there would be a lot less trouble.
The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion—these are the two things that govern us.
— Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?
— Who I'm gonna be?
— Yeah.
— Aren't I going to be me?
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Mistakes are as serious as the results they cause!
Expect the unexpected and you will never be surprised.
I mean, I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.
If you can't win the game, if you can't solve the puzzle, then start over.
"If you want a friend, tame me..."
"What must I do, to tame you?" asked the little prince.
"You must be very patient," replied the fox.
"First you will sit down at a little distance from me — like that — in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing... But you will sit a little closer to me, every day..."
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed...
"Find out who you are... and do it on purpose." That's Dolly Parton.
It had been her experience that the liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor.