Life Quotes - Page 186

We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.

The quickest way to change the world is to be of service to others. Show that your love can make a difference in the lives of people and thereby someone else's love can make a difference in your life. By each of us doing that and working together we change the world one inner person at a time.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil.

Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility... Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in each moment. I believe it would be evident that for the person who was fully open to his new experience, completely without defensiveness, each moment would be new.

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

I'm trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other.

One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

To be is to be the value of a variable.

From the stars we come, to the stars we go. Life is but a journey into the unknown.