“In order to write about life first you must live it.”
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”
“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”
Variant: When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.
“The way we see the problem is the problem.”
“People are strange, they neither wish to live nor die.”
“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
Variant: you are so brave & quiet i forget you are suffering.
“Those who spend too fast never grow rich.”
Qui dépense trop n’est jamais riche.
La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Maison_du_chat-qui-pelote [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket] (1830), translated by Clara Bell
“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
Source: You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 21 : Orbit. Fleming is quoting Jack London directly.
“I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.”
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”
“Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”
Variant: A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 112.
“I like the wind because you can’t buy it.”
Gianni Agnelli quotes http://hespokestyle.com/mens-style-advice/gianni-agnelli-quotes/ hespokestyle.com
Discourses
Variant: ...none ought to be educated but the free;...
Book II, ch. 1.
