Life Quotes - Page 160

I don't agree that life favors the prepared mind because life made me lose my mind.

They sensed somehow that she lived in the prenumbral shadows between two worlds, just beyond the grasp of their power. That a woman that they had already damned, now had little left to lose, and could therefore be dangerous. So on the days that the radio played Ammu's songs, people avoided her, making little loops around her, because everybody agreed that it was best to just Let Her Be.

But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock.

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

Your personal development is your personal responsibility. No one can study or acquire knowledge for you. There are things only you can do, to bring the change or the results you require to make progress in life.

Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?

The insights gathered from those relatively unique experiences can add wisdom to our own travels.

Bellybuttons are our link with the past.

I knew the point wasn’t the victory, but pulling yourself together and crawling your way back. That was life.

Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to the thing gained, so that over time we'd be lucky if we just broke even. Any thought otherwise was empty pride. p. 380

There is nothing so convincing as a thing well done.

Security and safety were the reward of dullness.

Nothing remarkable or impressive comes to be overnight, and all those so-called "overnight success" stories misrepresent the truth. It is only the manifestation of that success that appeared overnight, but its essence was built up over time.

Pray daily for your family.

Only allow what contributes positively into your life.

Every act and choice you make is creating the real you and shaping your real life.

How we perceive of the world around us determines the outcome of what it is we choose to see or not see

When you have the power of time, you can take possession of your time, there is nothing you cannot become.

Life becomes meaningful with a loving heart's gift Upon the ocean of gratitude soul's boat adrift Invisible expectancy tossed and turnedFrom the light of memories a blessed ray earned

Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out.

In Your Early Years people Tell You, Correct You and Forgive You. But when you become an Adult, they Neither Correct you nor Forgive You

Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus

The most important lesson life has taught me: Nothing can kill us other than death itself. So, be fearless, take chances, step out of your comfort zone, spread your wings and soar high. Live while you are alive.

I am continually coming back to the belief that I know nothing, or that there are much deeper places to go with what I think I know. It's liberating, actually. I don't think the biggest questions can be answered with any certainty. I'm becoming more and more peaceful not knowing.

Still, we always have some level of choice, even if it only how we react and make use of what life brings us.

I have drunk the night and swallowed the stars. I am dancing with abandon and singing with rapture. There is not a thing I do not love. There is not a person I have not forgiven. I feel a universe of love. I feel a universe of light. Tonight, I am with old friends and we are returning home. The moon is our witness.

Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

He could not stand. It was notThat he could not thrive, he was bornWith everything but the will –That can be deformed, just like a limb.Death was more interesting to him.Life could not get his attention.

It is gracious to have old people full of vitality and endowed with wisdom in our society.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

You've got to know what your magic is. How else will you fully share your gifts with others and enrich the world for these precious years that you live?

When something is truly meant for YOU, you won't have to force it, rush it, or manipulate it.

We came to this world with nothing but love and blessing. The purpose of our life is to be happy by loving and serving.

There is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact it's all dark.

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I wouldn't go back to ashes or dustWords gave me life and in them I will surrenderFrom words to words..

WRITE YOURSELF OUT OF THE WRONG PLACE!WRITING IS SPIRITUAL THERAPY✏#HOPENATION

It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young.No he isn't, thought Ender. Small, yes. Bur Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending on him and on the soldiers that he led. and he performed splendidly, and the won. There's no youth in that. No childhood.

If birds did not believe in their ability to fly, the sky would be empty.

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

What do worldly (non Self-realised) people do? They feel uneasy the moment a guest arrives. The husband tells his wife, 'you just show that you are upset, so then he will leave!' You get upset or even if you verbally abuse him, the guest will not leave. How can he when it was meant to happen [it is decided]? By getting upset, you are gathering stock (of karma) for the next life, you’ll need something to spend in your next life [won’t you]?

Though the fire and water tried to overtake me, I have come out to a place of great abundance. I know that the fires of refinement, although hard, dark, and difficult, brought me to a better and richer place in God.

Life is not a competition. No one has to lose for someone else to win. A true blessing blesses everyone.

That kind of imagination is why we're not dead.

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

While you were born with a self-worth and is a gift of God to you to begin your life with, your net worth is what you build here on earth and what you choose to do with the resources and gifts that you have been given.

There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

Anyone can find the bad in any situation but it takes love to see the good in all things.

Now I've gone for too longLiving like I'm not aliveSo I'm going to start over tonightBeginning with you and I

As age changes with each moment, we become that little bit more of a distant memory to the person we are currently.

Fairy magic is present in every ray of sunlight and each joyful moment. Embrace the living essence of nature.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

The great souls work with great passion.

Get rid of all baggage of your past. You don't need this extra load. It can only slow you down and hold you back.

The greatest adventure is reading!

Living without a purpose is like life without oxygen

While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights)

I enjoy the healing music and touch of love, touching my heart and soul when I give it away.

Look at it this way, child, life is a magic show, or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery, son.