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Stop thinking about life and choose to live it
Sep 29, 2025
Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life.
Zen has no secrets other than seriously thinking about life and death.
I started thinking about life insurance and how nice it would be if you could get insurance that your life would be happy, and that everyone you knew could be happy, and they could all do what they really wanted to do, and they could all find the people they wanted to find.
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
People think about life from day-to-day rather than thinking about life as something that invents a new kind of tomorrow.
Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U.S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn't become mainstream enough because the pages don't turn themselves.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
If you think you can't, you're right.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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