Life Quotes - Page 162

Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around.

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

Life is for participating, not for spectating.

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!

Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

The training is a set of interpersonal interactions that lead to emotional and intellectual experiences that provide a circumstance and an intrument for self awareness, self observation and reflection on the circumstances of the subject trainee, both in his individual life and as a social being.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

...if anyone looks with faith at the mystical table and the Bread of Life placed on it, he sees the Person of the Word of God, Who was made flesh for our sake and dwelt among us (John 1:14). If he shows himself a worthy receptacle, he will not only see but become a partaker of Him, receive Him to dwell within him, and be filled with His divine grace.

I think God has a plan for me, but I don't think it's in this life.

Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.

Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.