Quotes to Live By

Humans employ value systems to ensure a moral and spiritual fabric in society. However, sometimes we get carried away by wanton desires and lose our self control. To conquer your freewheeling mind, here is a set of quotes to live by. Make them a part of your value system and build yourself into a mountain of strength.

• Epictetus
  He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
  
  
• Ken S. Keyes, Jr.
  To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
  
  
• Steven D. Woodhull
  You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.
  
  
• Jim Rohn
  If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
  
  
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
  
  
• Charles Dickens
  Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
  
  
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
  
  
• Oscar Wilde
  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all.
  
  
• Albert Schweitzer
  In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
  
  
• Albert Einstein
  Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
  
  
• Maria Robinson
  Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
  
  
• Henry Van Dyke
  Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.