Life Quotes - Page 116

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

we are the ones we have been waiting for

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.

Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. Let us love our country, but pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora and fauna and human life that it supports - one planet indivisible, with clean air,... soil and water; with liberty, justice and peace for all.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

There is a thought in your mind right now. The longer you hold on to it, the more you dwell upon it, the more life you give to that thought. Give it enough life, and it will become real. So make sure the thought is indeed a great one.

Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence of life to sustain him. There are various Ways. There is the Way of salvation by the law of Buddha, the Way of Confucius governing the Way of learning, the Way of healing as a doctor, as a poet teaching the Way of Waka, tea, archery, and many arts and skills. Each man practices as he feels inclined.

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

When you know clearly what you want, you'll wake up every morning excited about life.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.