Life Quotes - Page 178

Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.

There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.

Even though it's tiring, I'm having the time of my life.

Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love's not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true ...In this life I was loved by you.

This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon "that" which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss, rather, it is for the hardy who have been tried by fire and have come to rest in a tough, immovable trust in "that" which lies beyond the known, beyond the self, beyond union and even beyond love and trust itself

I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.

If its platform is any guide, the Republican party is staunchly pro-life until you are actually born.

If no one else has ever told you this before, I will tell it to you one more time and hope you believe it and never forget it for the rest of your life: You deserve to be treated well.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.

It's funny how the littlest things can make you feel larger than life; the right lyric, the most heartfelt melody, the clearest message. Love.

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?

Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.