Life Quotes - Page 253

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

The best teacher in life is experience.

Why are the people starving?- Because their grain is being eaten up by the taxes That's why they're starving Why are people rebellious?- Because those above them meddle in their lives That's why they're rebellious Why do people regard death so lightly?- Because they are so involved with their own living That's why they regard death so lightly In the end, The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go

If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time.

If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too."

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

Money buys you the freedom to live your life the way you want.

Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.

Life is too long to reject the opportunities in front of you every day.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

A picture is a poem without words

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.