Life Quotes - Page 153

Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

What you see is what you get.

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

Love is the absence of judgment.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.

We talk to ourselves incessantly about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. And whenever we finish talking to ourselves about ourselves and our world, the world is always as it should be. We renew it, we rekindle it with life, we uphold it with our internal talk. Not only that, but we also choose our paths as we talk to ourselves. Thus we repeat the same choices over and over until the day we die, because we keep on repeating the same internal talk over and over until the day we die. A warrior is aware of this and strives to stop his internal talk.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Old age is no place for sissies.

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.