Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

Real living is living for others.

Life well spent is long.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Character is higher than intellect...A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows. Plato's famous account of the trial and death of Socrates.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, — "Always do what you are afraid to do."

I have no fear of losing my life. If I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.