Life Quotes - Page 92

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

Another fresh new year is here . . . Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give! This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest . . . To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best! I have the opportunity Once more to right some wrongs, To pray for peace, to plant a tree, And sing more joyful songs!

Tough times go away, tough people do not.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the great enterprises and ideals of American society.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.

Remember the saying, What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger? It's true!

Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.

When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.

Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.

There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.