Life Quotes - Page 120

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it's the right choice.

Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. Everyone wants to be the first to know. It's the rhythm of life today.

No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide some warning signs, they can do little to prepare you for the feeling of rootlessness that follows when fate flips your world upside down. Anger, confusion, sadness, and frustration are shaken up together inside you like a snow globe. It takes years for the emotional dust to settle as you do your best to see through the storm.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Life is too short to remain unnoticed

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .