Life Quotes - Page 255

Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

To experience true life, we must continue the Christian journey the same way we began it - by faith.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if - as the poet Rumi put it - everything is rigged in our favor.

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?

And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.

It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.

Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbor, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

To fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.