Life Quotes - Page 171

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

We can be certain that God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that he ordains. The will of God will never take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.

Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they're also doing good-adding value to the world.

I like Aurora, Sleeping Beauty, because shes just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life - lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work

This life is the greatest lie ever told and the hereafter is the greatest truth ever unknown

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.

It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

If you would be a magician, honor the Earth. Honor life. Love. Know that magic is the birthright of every human being, and wisely use it.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.