“It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.”
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Designing the Future (2007)
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
Other
“I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.”
As quoted in Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity (1997) by Jan Phillips, p. 176
Undated
“The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.”
“Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.”
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
In answer to a question asked by the editors of Youth, a journal of Young Israel of Williamsburg, NY. Quoted in the New York Times, June 20, 1932, pg. 17 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40617F83B5A13738DDDA90A94DE405B828FF1D3
Unsourced variant: Only a life in the service of others is worth living.
1930s
Variant: I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 27
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius
Source: Carlos Castaneda (1971) Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan. p. 85; As cited in: Eugene Dupuis (2001) Time Shift: Managing Time to Create a Life You Love. Ch. 5: Self Management
“To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.”
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
Variant: Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.
Source: Letter to My Daughter
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
Source: 1890s, The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 22