Life Quotes - Page 101

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

Peace can be a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience.

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

All life is an experiment.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Happy wife, happy life.

You can start with nothing. And out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made.

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.

If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities

Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of gratitude. I now allow this gratitude to fill my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being. This gratitude radiates out from me in all directions, touching everything in my world, and returns to me as more to be grateful for. The more gratitude I feel, the more I am aware that the supply is endless.

It doesn't matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom.

To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.