Life Quotes - Page 132

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

My lifestyle determines my deathstyle.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Death is a very important part of life.

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.

I'll ride the wave, where it takes me!

Better late than never but never late is better. They tell me time is money well we'll spend it together.

Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.

The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people.