-The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.

-You should not waste your days in trying to prolong them.

-The quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment, compassion and will to succeed.

-Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

Life is like a winding path with just enough bends to keep us guessing whats around the corner.

Books

Cicero: A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Theodore Parker: The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Amy Lowell: For books are more than books, they are the lifeThe very heart and core of ages past,The reason why men lived and worked and died,The essence and quintessence of their lives.

Thoreau

-We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

-Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

-Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify.