Life Quotes - Page 103

Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life.

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power-enable a new human being to emerge. Her vocation is unique.

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.

We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.

Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

Love knows no difference between life and death The one who gives you a reason to live is also the one who takes your breath away

While sleeping in a hammock, with the touch of a warm wind we remember why we are in love with the life!

When you know better you do better.

Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Not every person is going to understand you and that's okay. They have a right to their opinion and you have every right to ignore it.

The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.

Chance encounters are what keep us going.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.