Life Quotes - Page 235

Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Whatever you do in life, yoga shows you how to do it better.

My life is like a faded leaf, My harvest dwindled to a husk: Truly my life is void and brief And tedious in the barren dusk; My life is like a frozen thing, No bud nor greenness can I see: Yet rise it shall - the sap of Spring; O Jesus, rise in me.

You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least.

The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now-this day-this hour.

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.

How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.

A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

If you want good things to happen in your life you first have to believe good things are possible for yourself. Quit allowing negative and cynical thinking to get in the way of the good life you deserve.

It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest.

About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me it´s just the contrary. Often it´s something you paid no attention to at the time -- a vague thought that you didn´t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed -- these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those are the people who will look beyond the obvious and see things in this world that are truly wonderful... But they won't say anything, even if they do. Because the rest of us who view the world as logical and scientific wouldn't see the truth if it was posted up on a billboard.

I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!

Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.