Life Quotes - Page 187

Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes the instinctive activities that enable all living beings to obtain their food, to find shelter, to bring forth their young: to sing and dance and fly through the air and swim through the depths of the sea. This is the same inner tendency that evokes the insight of the poet, the skill of the artist and the power of the shaman.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

You're not a failure if you don't make it. You're a success because you tried.

I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.

We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.

I have a message for my fans. Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing that I've found, that perhaps you could use, is be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner.

I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.

... life is short and the world is wide

Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

The fastest way to become the master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the master of your thoughts and emotions. You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

I don’t want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.

It's a wonderful life if you can find it.

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend.

Your soul doesn't care what you do for a living - and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you are being while you are doing whatever you are doing.