" Throughout life, people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. "

- Will Smith

" Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others? "

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. "

- Ernest Holmes

" We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. "

- E. M. Forster

" Beware the barrenness of a busy life. "

- Socrates

" I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. "

- Henry David Thoreau

" You have succeeded in life when all you want is only what you need. "

- Vernon Howard

" Nothing in life is to be feared, only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. "

- Marie Curie

" Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. "

- Confucius

" The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. "

- Nelson Mandela

" You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life. "

- Mary Oliver

" Nature loves courage. You commit, and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream, and the world will not grind you under; it will lift you. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who counted and touched the alchemical gold understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed. "

- Terrence McKenna

" Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. "

- Albert Einstein

" Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. "

- Harvey Fierstein

" The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work. "

- Oprah

" The best gift anyone can give, I believe, is the gift of sharing themselves. "

- Oprah

" Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. "

- Josh Billings

" He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. "

- Friedrich Nietzsche

" Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them—that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward however they like. "

- Lao Tzu.

" Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. "

- Dalai Lama