Life Quotes - Page 189

Little by little, one travels far

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

If you have a good story, it doesn’t have to be overproduced. I want our stories to reveal the wonders of the human spirit and the richness of life in California, including its history, people, culture and natural wonders.

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Peace is not something that happens by accident. Peace is like silence; it is always there. The lack of harmony in our lives is like noise superimposed on the silence. THe issue is not how to create peace, but how to live in a way that eliminates the noise.

If you haven't time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.

Isn’t it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?

No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -

If we wish that the name Israel be not extinguished, then we are in duty bound to create something which may serve as a center for our entire people, like the heart in an organism, from which the blood will stream into all the arteries of the national body and fill it with life.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever.

To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

Off the floor I'm really laid back, like nothing really fazes me too much. But on the floor I do get emotional and a little carried away. However, I started playing when I was 13 to have fun with my teammates, and that never stopped. I enjoy traveling and having fun in the locker room with the guys. Life is too short to be miserable.

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.