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Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
Oct 2, 2025
I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.
If you're going to devote the best years of your life to your work, have enough love for yourself and the world around you to work on something that matters to you deeply
High school sucks. People who say those were the best years of your life - those people are liars... Who wants the best years of their life to be in *high school*? High school is something *everybody* should be ready to lose.
There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
If two of your films don't do well, people say you're out in the cold and your career is over. One film does well, and you've had the best year of your life! I don't believe in all that's written.
Fulfilling your vision for the best year of your life requires thought and introspection. It is not much different than planning an awesome vacation. It takes time, discussion, planning, decision making, and an array of other skills.
Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
You can’t just say that you’re committed to creating the best year of your life and expect it to stick. You have to make a conscious effort to allow this commitment to become part of your internal belief system.
High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.
Be clear on where you are and where you want to go and you will get there. It can be the best year of your life.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.
The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
You are by yourself for the best years of your life. You sleep in airports. If it doesn't kill you it makes you strong.
Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults say this to children I look into their faces. They look like someone on the top seat of the Ferris wheel who has had too much cotton candy and barbecue. They'd like to get off and be sick but everyone keeps telling them what a good time they're having.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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