Life Quotes - Page 48

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Life is possible only through challenges. Life is possible only when you have both good weather and bad weather, when you have both pleasure and pain, when you have both winter and summer, day and night. When you have both sadness and happiness, discomfort and comfort. Life moves between these two polarities. Moving between these two polarities you learn how to balance. Between these two wings you learn how to fly to the farthest star.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Never back down from a real challenge. They give the best lessons in life.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

Immortal and indestructible, surrounds all and directs all.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

What we play is life.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.