Echoes

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

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Lost Time is never found again.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

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

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

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

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Virtue is serious business; everything else is farce.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

He who does not value life does not deserve it.

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.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

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

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.