(19 quotes found)
“Let us endeavor to live so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry”
Mark Twain
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
Voltaire
“If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life”
Benjamin Franklin
“Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.”
Anthony Robbins
“The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.”
Oscar Wilde
“Manage your feelings well. Too many people shut down and burn out, instead of learning how to see the truth, set boundaries, detach with love, and manage their feelings skillfully.”
Terence T. Gorski
“You can’t have a long-term relationship because every time you start dating, you break it off before it can turn into a long-term relationship. You break it off because it doesn’t feel like it will ever become a long-term relationship.”