You live only insofar as you live according to your own ideas.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Your life is only as good as the beliefs you hold about it.

Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.

Everybody exists. It is only the few who live. To live, you should have an ideal.

Der wirklich freie Mensch will nur, was er vermag, und tut nur, was ihm gefällt.

Life is to be lived within the limits of your knowledge and within the concept of what you would like to see yourself to be.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

Das Leben als Ertrag des Lebens. - Der Mensch mag sich noch so weit mit seiner Erkenntniss ausrecken, sich selber noch so objectiv vorkommen: zuletzt trägt er doch Nichts davon, als seine eigene Biographie.

It’s your life — but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else or a community or a pressure group, you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.