life perspective quotes

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.