“The secret to which I refer cannot be had without a price, although the price is far less than its value. It cannot be had at any price by those who are not intentionally searching for it. It cannot be given away, it cannot be purchased for money, for the reason that it comes in two parts. One part is already in possession of those who are ready for it.”
— Napoleon Hill
“The pure and good selfish life is wanting to live life for yourself the way you see it and allowing everyone else the freedom to do that same thing.”
— John-Roger
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
-— Anne Bradstreet
“Sometimes the biggest accomplishment in life is to find yourself.”
— Luisa Fernanda Cicero
“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”
— Stephen Vincent Benet
“It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. … It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking. So many of us changed our lives when we heard a biological clock and decided to have kids. But that sound is a murmur compared to the tolling of mortality.”
— Anna Quindlen
“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”
— Rita Mae Brown
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.”
— Alan Keightley