Life Quotes - Page 256

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

To be happy, make other people happy.

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

We owe them [animals] a decent life and a decent death, and their lives should be as low-stress as possible. That's my job. I wish animals could have more than just a low-stress life and a quick, painless death. I wish animals could have a good life, too, with something useful to do. People were animals, too, once, and when we turned into human beings we gave something up. Being close to animals brings some of it back.

Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties

What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

When I first saw you, I saw love And the first time you touched me, I felt love And after all this time, You're still the one I love.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Life is never easy for those who dream.

The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.

This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me! Live me! Complete me!" There is an intrinsic quality in every experience that it tends and wants to be finished, completed. Once completed, it evaporates; incomplete, it persists, it tortures you, it haunts you, it attracts your attention. It says, "What are you going to do about me? I am still incomplete - fulfill me!"

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you.