Life Quotes - Page 251

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

I used to say I live my life a quarter mile at a time and I think that's why we were brothers- because you did, too. No matter where you are, whether it's a quarter mile away or half way across the world. The most important thing in life, will always be the people in this room. Salute mi familia. You'll always be with me... And you'll always be my brother.

The upholder of the cycles which sustain all Life is water. In every drop of water dwells a deity whom indeed we all serve. There also dwells Life, the soul of the primal substance - water - whose boundaries and banks are the capillaries that guide it, and in which it circulates. Every pulse beat arising through the interaction of will and resistance is indicative of creative work and urges us to care for those vessels, those primary and most vital structures, in which throbs the product of a dualistic power - Life

You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

The essence of Christianity is centered upon the Lord Jesus Christ. The sum and substance of being a Christian is trusting Christ with the entirety of one's being. The height of the Christian life is adoring Christ, the depth of it loving Him, the breadth of it obeying Him, and the length of it following Him. Everything in the Christian life revolves around Jesus Christ. Simply put, Christianity is Christ.

Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived forward. The more one thinks through this clause, the more one concludes that life in temporality never becomes properly understandable, simply because never at any time does one get perfect repose to take the stance - backward.

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.

To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing

The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.