Life Quotes - Page 223

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should be a boy for the sixth part of his life; when a twelfth was added, his cheeks acquired a beard; He kindled for him the light of marriage after a seventh, and in the fifth year after his marriage He granted him a son. Alas! late-begotten and miserable child, when he had reached the measure of half his father's life, the chill grave took him. After consoling his grief by this science of numbers for four years, he reached the end of his life.

Prevention is better than cure.

The season for enjoying the fullness of life - partaking of the harvest, sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions of the harvest for yet another season of growth.

When inspiration comes life is lived in the moment and peace descends. When inspiration leaves thoughts turn to violently killing time

God works through men. I see nowhere in the Word where God picks an organization.

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

I would rather die standing than live kneeling

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant story, and it's up to us how it will turn out in the end.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

Country to me is living life at its simplest: Learning to appreciate a sliced vine-ripe tomato with a dash of salt, served between two slices of good bread and eaten over the kitchen sink.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Understanding is a great experience in itself, but it does not come through instruction.

We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom.

The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.

I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.

I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born.

If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.