Life Quotes - Page 195

The message of Easter is not that Jesus is alive, it is so much more. The message of Easter is that Jesus has risen!

Fashion changes, but style endures.

You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.

Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.

If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago.

Step by step and the thing is done.

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

People and stars are made of the same stuff.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball!

In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.

Life is available to anyone no matter what age. All you have to do is grab it.

Life is not a dress rehearsal - wake up every day excited to live out your purpose.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

I admit that thoughts influence the body.

Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.