Age Quotes - Page 36

There is a design and a purpose for each of our lives. Living unaware of that is sad, but dying unaware of it is a tragedy.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

When in doubt, do the courageous thing.

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

There's a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy.

Our first and last love is self-love.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.

Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age.

In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

Life is too short to learn German

I was in my peak physical condition when I was about like, uh... one. Oh God, I looked good, young and fresh! You wouldn't know me now if you'd seen me when I was one, you know? I even looked good for my age. People would come up to me and go, what are you, zero? And I'd go, no, I'm one over here!