Life Quotes - Page 71

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

God does not play dice.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization." "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion.

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Life is so much wiser and kinder than your mind imagines. Trust & Be Still.

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;" And the white rose weeps, "She is late;" The larkspur listens, "I hear; I hear;" And the lily whispers, "I wait."