Life Quotes - Page 175

There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.

We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

My life is a struggle.

Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

I learned that you should breath it in, breath your life in and enjoy it. Always be optimistic and be nice to people, open to people. Follow your dreams but make sure that you know what your dreams are. If you find something really great, don’t screw it up, don’t mess it up but hang on to it. You never know how and when it ends

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on some things, you're just going to have to agree to disagree. And when you go to bed at night, kiss each other and tell each other that you love each other. Don't go to bed mad. Life is too short. Keep it simple.

Every one of us comes into this life with lessons to learn and gifts to give.

Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.

Everyday I'm Hustlin'.

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!