Life Quotes - Page 244

I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash - at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance.

A man's needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to make life happy: the blessing of God, the benefit of books, and the benevolence of friends.

I try to make sense of life. I try to keep myself open to people and to laughter and to love and to have faith.

Remember, life is for living and learning. So listen to your life and the lessons it offers. What choices must you make this day to help you move forward? Make your list of the things you can do right now to create what you want and begin to do the work. You can say yes to happiness, wholeness, and prosperity. You can live fully and creatively. You can claim your power to choose. Why not claim it now?

Enjoy the journey, because the destination is a mirage.

The real you is timeless and beyond life and death.

I want you to stop running from thing to thing to thing, and to sit down at the table, to offer the people you love something humble and nourishing, like soup and bread, like a story, like a hand holding another hand while you pray. We live in a world that values us for how fast we go, for how much we accomplish, for how much life we can pack into one day. But I'm coming to believe it's in the in-between spaces that our lives change, and that the real beauty lies there.

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

Life is long. But it goes fast.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

Every good thought, every good word, every good emotion, and every act of kindness, is lifting the vibration of your being to new heights. And as you begin to raise your vibration, a new life and a new world will reveal itself to you.

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

We are dreamers. We worship love, we hope against hope and toss practicality out the window.

You must change in order to survive.

If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.

A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?