Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

He only earns his freedom and his life who takes them every day by storm.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Perhaps that is where our choice lies — in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.

Elana K. Arnold

Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.

Germany Kent