Life Quotes - Page 238

What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act - and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

God will always bring the right people into your life, but you have to let the wrong people walk away.

When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.

Every day, set your mind in the right direction. Find something to be grateful for.

The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and with the systemic, self-healing powers of the web of life, so that they may be enlivened and motivated to play their part in creating a sustainable civilization.

A lifetime’s work, to try and say one thing that’s true.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.

"I want to change you" - that is not a revolution. "I'm willing to change" - now this is a revolution.

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it.

Life is measured by how you lived it, not by the years.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.