We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.

Recommended reading: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.

Recommended reading: The Honda Myth: The Genius and His Wake.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.

Recommended reading: The Five People You Meet in Heaven.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant – there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing – and keeping the unknown always beyond you.

Recommended reading: Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life.

Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

Recommended reading: The Story of My Life. 

Do not go gentle into that good night; Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Recommended reading: The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas.

In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen — really seen.

Recommended reading: Rising Strong.

One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Recommended reading: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living.

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when we look back everything is different.

Recommended reading: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics.

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing the lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.

Recommended reading: The Dharma Bums.