Life Quotes - Page 112

Be still my tongue, for i know not what to say; My life is lived in darkness and here i will remain.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.

We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.

Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.

You know, there’s a philosopher who says, “As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, non-related events, smashing into each other and causing this situation or that situation, and then, this happens, and it’s overwhelming, and it just looks like what in the world is going on ? And later, when you look back at it, it looks like a finely crafted novel. But at the time, it don’t.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.