Life Quotes - Page 149

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard, kinda.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the circumstance that is the problem. It is our resistance to it.

Don't wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.

Life has a much bigger plan for you. Happiness is part of that plan. Health is part of that plan. Stability is part of that plan. Constant struggle is not.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.

History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.

Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time and labor, the result is that there is no time left? We are a time-poor society; we are temporally impoverished. And there is no issue, no aspect of human life, that exceeds this in importance. The destruction of time is literally the destruction of life.

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world.

Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

What you see is what you see.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.