Life Quotes - Page 246

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

The key of all life is value. Value is not what you get, it's what you give.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centred on the body

It is not necessary to live, But to carve our names beyond that point, This is necessary.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think that the favorable properties of physics, on which life depends, are in every respect deliberate.... It is, therefore, almost inevitable that our own measure of intelligence must reflect higher intelligence -even to the limit of God.

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the movies,” it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.

Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.

Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.

When things go wrong, don't go with them.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

We work to become, not to acquire.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.

You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

If you want something, go get it. Period.

The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.