Life Quotes - Page 247

Half the truth is often a great lie.

You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is...unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.

It depends on me whether life is good or not. Not on life, on me.

The best things in life don't make sense

I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory, since pain, when pain has passed, is nothing. Time is the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity, conducting us to the Incomprehensible. In its progress there is a ripening power, and it ripens us the more, and the more powerfully, when we duly estimate it. Listen to its voice, do not waste it, but regard it as the highest finite good, in which all finite things are resolved.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don't know who you are; you lose your boundaries, you lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

The mental pattern must always precede the material form.

I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. But man is not ready for adventure unless he is rid of fear. For fear confines him and limits his scope. He stays tethered by strings of doubt and indecision and has only a small and narrow world to explore.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

Life's a pudding full of plums.

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Today I begin a new life for I am the master of my abilities and today is going to be a great and beautiful day!

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.