People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.
Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
Many associate me with the person I was when I was young. But I had a different role then, played in a different position.
Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.
Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new.
