Life Quotes - Page 61

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it ends. Life is like that too. Just when we get it right, it starts to change. The job gets easy and we know just how to do it, and they tell us we're retired. The children grow up and get reasonable and they leave home, just when it's nice to have them around. . . . That's life on the edge of autumn. And that's beautiful-if we have the humility for it.

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off.

My life is simple, my food is plain, and my quarters are uncluttered. In all things, I have sought clarity. I face the troubles and problems of life and death willingly. Virtue, integrity and courage are my priorities. I can be approached, but never pushed; befriended but never coerced; killed but never shamed.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I'd never trade my old girl for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my daughter Toya for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my only boy for all the money in the world. I put my last name first!

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.

He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul - short life? ... Make me thy fuel, Flame of God.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.