Life Quotes - Page 249

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Don't run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our lives change for the better.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.

All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time, your attention, your love, your concern.

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need

Life is a process of accumulation. We either accumulate the debt or the value, the regret or the equity.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

Life is like Candyland, there are many paths to take, sometimes you run into Lord Licorice but the end will always be Candy Castle.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

It's an amazing feeling to know that life is actually growing inside your body. The first time you see the ultrasound and you see the little bones and you realise that it's part of you and it's in your care is life changing and this sort of protective instinct has taken over.

To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

A good peace, a solid peace, a peace in which communities can flourish, can only be built when we ask ourselves and each other to be more than just good, and better than just strong. And a good life, a meaningful life, a life in which we can enjoy the world and live with purpose, can only be built if we do more than live for ourselves.