Life Quotes - Page 11

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

Ya know it's funny, what's happening to us. Our lives have become digital. Our friends, now virtual. And, anything you could ever wanna know is just a click away. Experiencing the world through second hand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it. We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self-discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The great thing that strikes you on looking back is how quickly you have come-how very brief is the span of life on this earth. The warning that one would give, therefore, is that it is well not to fritter it away on things that don't count in the end; nor on the other hand is it good to take life too seriously as some seem to do. Make it a happy life while you have it. That is where success is possible to every man.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.