Life Quotes - Page 161

The examined life is no picnic.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.

Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.

Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good.

Life is short is what some niggaz said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did.

Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.

When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and the world of imagination and meaning comes towards you.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Many people falsely believe that if you want to be holy, you are not allowed to enjoy life...Holiness brings us to life. It refines every human ability. Holiness doesn't dampen our emotions; it elevates them. Those who respond to God's call to holiness are the most joyful people in history. They have a richer, more abundant experience of life, and they love more deeply than most people can every imagine. They enjoy life, all of life.

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.

Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life.

On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.