Life Quotes - Page 219

The good watercolors take a lifetime - plus a half an hour.

Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.

Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he thinks you are a savage. Or perhaps he is afraid of you because he feels that you are afraid of him. And perhaps if he believed you are capable of loving him he would no longer be your enemy.

Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.

My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

Every kind of work can be a pleasure. Even simple household tasks can be an opportunity to exercise and expand our caring, our effectiveness, our responsiveness. As we respond with caring and vision to all work, we develop our capacity to respond fully to all of life. Every action generates positive energy which can be shared with others. These qualities of caring and responsiveness are the greatest gift we can offer.

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.

My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

Life is a series of awakenings

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

People have been turned away from hospitals simply because they have no insurance. People have been put out of hospitals because they have reached the lifetime caps.

I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life.

What I love most about fatherhood is the opportunity to be a part of the development process of a new life.

. . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

I will take my leave of you, but I will remember you always because you are the ones who encouraged me and lifted me up high. I will remember you forever, forever, even in the afterlife.

You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.

Is there a God? Is there an afterlife?... I think that now, more so than ever, people are much more willing to take the time and question what's out there.

Problems form an important part of our lives. They are placed in our path for us to overcome them, not to be overcome by them. We must master them, not let them master us. Every time we overcome a challenge, we grow in experience, in self assuredness, and in faith.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Understand life's mysteries, - as mysteries to be lived.