Life Quotes - Page 47

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests, soils, and wildlife are all involved with the conservation of the human spirit. The goal we all strive toward is happiness, contentment, the dignity of the individual, and the good life. This goal will elude us forever if we forget the importance of the intangibles.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

One day I realized that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life. That's when you can begin really looking for a relationship. When you can appreciate the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.' And so it starts.

Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul's life, Love is simply creation's greatest joy.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

Life is a party. Dress for it.