Life Quotes - Page 41

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.

O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along with those measures comes a surrender of our own responsibilities and therefore a surrender of our own thought over our own lives and our own right to exercise the vote. The free system gives the right to every citizen to do something for himself. Because he has the right, the opportunity is always there.

My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.