Life Quotes - Page 147

If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.

The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside.

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.

Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Frank (Frank Sinatra) is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?

My father always would say, "My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister", but it's not what I wanted to do. I would say, "No, Papa, I will never go into politics." As I've said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me ... But I accepted the responsibility and I've never wavered in my commitment.

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

I love life because what more is there?

Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.

Most people think it takes a long time to change. It doesn’t. Change is immediate! Instantaneous! It may take a long time to decide to change…but change happens in a heartbeat!

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Absolute consciousness is manifest here in every circumstance of daily life because it is everywhere full and perfect. Consciousness is said to be the cause of all things because it is everywhere emergent as each manifest entity.

One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.