They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.Garrison Keillor
We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives.Tara Stiles
I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.Dolly Parton
Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world; there was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners.Margaret Hamilton
I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.Franz Kafka
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.Charles Darwin
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Yet, if I could start over, I was sure I would do the exact same things again. Because that was me.Haruki Murakami
Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the ones you did.Mark Twain
We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.Stanislaw Lem
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.Steve Jobs
We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next, next, next. But if you do that, you never investigate the vertical line - the depth of the piece.Simon McBurney
Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.Luke the Evangelist
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.Napoleon Bonaparte
It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.C. S. Lewis
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.Sir Winston Churchill
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.Henry Drummond
I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.Harun Yahya