Life Quotes - Page 114

I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.

It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

My life is a testament to believing that if you want something you can make it happen.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Patient and regular practice is the whole secret of spiritual realization. Do not be in a hurry in spiritual life. Do your utmost, and leave the rest to God.

Are not our desires inseparably intertwined with the continuation of life? Even the idea of eliminating desire is fruitless. The desire to eliminate all desire is still itself a desire. How can we find release and peace by replacing one desire with another? Surely we shall find peace not by eliminating desire, but by finding its fulfillment and satisfaction in the One who created it.

Unlike in school, in life you don't have to come up with all the right answers. You can ask the people around you for help - or even ask them to do the things you don't do well. In other words, there is almost no reason not to succeed if you take the attitude of 1) total flexibility - good answers can come from anyone or anywhere (and in fact, as I have mentioned, there are far more good answers 'out there' than there are in you) and 2) total accountability: regardless of where the good answers come from, it's your job to find them.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.

Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

The greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong assignment.

If you are not consciously directing your life, you will lose your footing and circumstances will decide for you.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.

We're a new generation of people. We need to be happy. We need to love each other. We need to accept each other for who we are and stop judging each other. Live life and love. Stop judging just to keep yourself secure. Look deeper. There's always something deeper than what it is.

There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.