Life Quotes - Page 207

Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you.

When we play, we sense no limitations. In fact, when we are playing, we are usually unaware of ourselves. Self-observation goes out the window. We forget all those past lessons of life, forget our potential foolishness, forget ourselves. We immerse ourselves in the act of play. And we become free.

Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?

Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

Time wounds all heels.

A human life is a schooling for eternity.

Things will be all right. People need to hear that. Life is good, just as it is. There isn't anything I would change about my life.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Art is the proper task of life.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life.