Echoes

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

I am endeavouring to live every day as if it were a complete life.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement and success have no meaning.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences.

Do not, my soul, seek immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment. Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little. Make use of time while it is present with you. It depends upon your will, and not upon the number of days, to have a sufficient length of life. Is it possible you can imagine never to arrive at the place towards which you are continually going? and yet there is no journey but hath its end. And, if company will make it more pleasant or more easy to you, does not all the world go the self-same way?

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; ’Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.