Life Quotes - Page 188

They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work" in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking "outside the box"; and when they die they are put in a box.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Choose people who lift you up.

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

LIFE is that existence that is given to man to live for a purpose, to live to his own satisfaction and pleasure, providing he forgets not the God who created him and who expects a spiritual obedience and observation of the moral laws that He has inspired.

I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.

So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Failure's a natural part of life.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

To change your LIFE you need to change your PRIORITIES.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

For things to change, you have to change.

Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.

Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.

People try to create an outwardly perfect life, but the quality of life is based on the inward.