Life Quotes - Page 150

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life... Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you've been born to do, now.

The universe does not judge us; it only provides consequences and lessons and opportunities to balance and learn through the law of cause and effect. Compassion is the recognition that we are each doing the best we can within the limits of our current beliefs and capacities.

All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing, we sail while reciting hymns, we accomplish all other occupations of life while praying.

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.

If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.

My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room.

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

If you want to know what's Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.