Life Quotes - Page 127

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

You’re my best friend, Shmuel,’ he said. ‘My best friend for life.

When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo - and just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live and work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination.

We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.

Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor everything equally with delight and rejoicing, and welcome with open arms what others dread and avoid.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any moment of your life. Life is Advent; life is recognizing the coming of the Lord

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose life.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect. They know that basic human problems can have no final solutions, that our freedom, justice, equality, etc. are far from absolute, and that the good life is compounded of half measures, compromises, lesser evils, and gropings toward the perfect. The rejection of approximations and the insistence on absolutes are the manifestation of a nihilism that loathes freedom, tolerance, and equity.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

Art is the flower... life the green leaf.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.