Life Quotes - Page 124

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall - if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then the good life shall be yours. And from this course no man has the power to hold you back.

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Sometimes the greatest love is not found in the dramatic scenes that poets and writers immortalize. Often, the greatest manifestations of love are the simple acts of kindness and caring we extend to those we meet along the path of life.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

When someone tells you, "You've changed," it might simply be because you've stopped living your life their way.

You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.

If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.

Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How dare we let it into our decision-making, into our livelihoods, into our relationships. It's funny, isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up in costumes and celebrate fear.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

O you, who spends his lifetime disobeying his Lord, no one amongst your enemies is wicked to you more than you are to yourself

I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.