Birthday Wishes and Status Messages - Page 14

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

The best things in life aren''t things.

View life as a continuous learning experience.

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you''ll find one at the end of your arm... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal.

Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.

We don''t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

You will give yourself peace of mind if you perform every act of your life as if it were your last.

To change and to change for the better are two different things.

To me old age is 15 years older than I am.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Remember this - very little is needed to make a happy life.

Take care of your body. It''s the only place you have to live.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

The principle is: competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man''s genius contracts itself to a very few hours.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

There is nothing permanent except change.

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you''re the pilot.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act;/ Sow an act, and you reap a habit;/ Sow a habit, and you reap a character;/ Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Today, be aware of how you are spending your 1,440 beautiful moments, and spend them wisely.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.