Life Quotes - Page 192

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.

. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.

Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Have you ever fully realized that life is, after all, merely a series of habits, and that it lies entirely within one's own power to determine just what that series shall be?

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving.

I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.

If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell and people could be going to hell—or not getting eternal life or whatever—and you think that, well, it’s not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward. . . . How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize? How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?

Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you

One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

If you’re going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you’d better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

I believe the experiences of life are more important than any film you make.

Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Pray. Trust God. Enjoy life. Don't let the little things get you down.

To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.

To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.