You’re pretending this isn’t your life. You think it’s going to happen some other time. When you’re dead you’ll realise you were alive now. ~ Caryl Chrchill
You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change. ~ Neil Gaiman
You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Accept the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking. ~ Brian Tracy
To decide to be at the level of choice is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. ~ Arbie M. Dale
Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. ~ Alan Lakein
There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. ~ Christopher Morley
There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.~ Daniel Handler
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you. ~ Anthony Robbins
The most decisive actions of our life — I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future — are, more often than not, unconsidered. Like a train into which one jumps without thinking, and without asking oneself where it is going. ~ Andre Gide
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery, of his passions. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls. ~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. ~ Paul Klee
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. ~ Joseph Conrad
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. ~ Walt Whitman
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. ~ Barbara De Angelis
Luck serves … as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny. ~ Hannah Arendt
Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention. ~ Salman Rushdie
Know yourself, master yourself; conquest of self is most gratifying. ~ Author Unknown
If you don’t program yourself, life will program you! ~ Les Brown
I know that life is a journey I must accept and that pain and confusion are temporary. I know that if I follow my heart, it will lead me where I belong. ~ Josh Groban
Good sense is the master of human life. ~ Author Unknown
Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what “it” wanted me to do. ~ Shakti Gawain
Don’t be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That’s only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself. ~ Olga Korbut
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. ~ Emil Nolde
Challenge yourself all the days of your life. ~ Author Unknown
After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life. ~ Joseph Brodsky
