All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life.

You get to a point in life where things are happening everywhere around you, and your friends are going away and not coming back. Things change.

If today were the last day of my life, Would I want to do what I'm about to do today? And whenever the answer has been "no" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it.