Life Quotes - Page 209

We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in.

Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?

I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

Always have old memories, and young hopes.

Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life.

If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.

The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive... and begin to act accordingly.

You are your choices.

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.