Life Quotes - Page 58

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

Wherever you are, at whatever age, you're only a thought away from changing your life.

Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

You only live once, life is really short.. don't let anything minuscule like that keep you down. Keep your head up.

If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.

Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about justice, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about peace, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about truth and life and redemption, we are speaking about Christ.