Life Quotes - Page 227

It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly.

Many are less fortunate than you’ may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

Doors are funny things. Some lead to somewhere exciting and wonderful, while others lead to the mundane and ordinary. Some, because they are gaudy and ornate, usher us into the land of greed and money. But many look unassuming and plain, yet hidden behind their simplicity one can find love; warmth; a cozy fire; a home cooked meal and a beautiful family.It's these doors I search for in life and it's these doors that I shall find.

Don’t choose to walk the well-worn path to regret.

Who can be worried without the light of a memory?

You get divine blessings when you love and cherish both those who love and hate you

Where there is a risk, there is a wealth.

Greatness is an attainment that is bought with the currency of time.

Your calling should bless and affect the lives of others for good

You shouldn’t claim the land alone but also take on responsibilities and change the land

People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without question - as grace and beauty; but have overlooked my work to substitute a vaster beauty, touching all objects and beings, not excluding the most despised - and because of that, all the more exhilarating.... I would like people to look at my work as an enterprise for the rehabilitation of scorned values, and, in any case, make no mistake, a work of ardent celebration.... I am convinced that any table can be for each of us a landscape as inexhaustible as the whole Andes range... I am struck by the high value, for a man, of a simple permanent fact, like the miserable vista on which the window of his room opens daily, that comes, with the passing of time, to have an important role in his life. I often think that the highest destination at which a work of art can aim is to take on that function in someone's life.

We have to do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.

Good deeds awakens the good spirit of every soul.

Success is a way of life that has meaning and purpose.

Worry about today, tomorrow will take care of itself.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.

I embrace my experience and value my wisdom.

When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not form the context anymore and all connections on the social chessboard are conked out. Only patience and endurance may draw us out of the quagmire of numbness and allow us to tear open the cloudy screen that is hiding our points of ‘interest’ and ‘attention’, so long as we focus on the ‘singular moments’ and the ‘appealing details’ in our life. Awareness can help us shape a comprehensive picture for a functional future. ("Lost the global story.")

Even when or if I become one of you, I vow to appreciate life; to appreciate my strength because unlike you, it seems, I’ve worked to earn mine

Sometimes we must leave our true homes for something greater to come.

You are the loving child of this universe, she is always eager to help you, your joy is her happiness.

Life’s product should be made intentionally and consciously

You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally realize that those dark days and sleepless nights were pre-requisites to your becoming.

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.

You don't get strong by standing at the finish line, you get strong with every step you take to get there.

I live life in the light.

Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

There exist bright sunny moment in any events of life.

There. That is the answer to this riddle. The promises I can make, and the one I can't. Gwen. I will never leave you willingly. Life is a risk, and so love is, as well. But I swear to God, you will not regret the gamble.

There is nothing that can defeat you if it does not first capture your mind.

For a day, just for a dayWe should swim in the love bayWe should celebrate peace dayFor a whole day, just for a day. We should think peace all the dayWe should walk peaceful wayFor a day, just for a peaceful day.

Work with great zeal.

These stories always take us to some far away places which we can never visit in real life.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument.

To serve others is not only by hands but by mouth as well.

Love is always true and eternal.Love can't be untrue or occasional.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Failure should be archived in head, not heart.

Seek spirituality of thy soul.

This was all in the making, a long time ago. You had as much control over these events as a leaf does in the time of its falling.

Don't be sad because I'm dying, be happy because very second another great human being is born, another person that ill have chances to do greater things than me.

Our response to the external conditions of our lives can be greatly altered by our perceptions of those conditions.

My greatest privilege is being married to a gentle loving husband. I am very grateful God made our path cross.

Direct your attention to men and find ways to put smiles on their faces

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

When one grows older one learns that happiness—complete and unadulterated happiness—comes only in moments, and must be recognized and savored to the full, for even in the happiest life, the complete joy is not always present.

Dare to seek answers to your questions.

When the world makes me feel like I am alone, love reminds me otherwise.

Don’t just remain an accidental being.

The future was something I had resolutely ignored. If didn't put my full attention to the day at hand, I was afraid that the impenetrable dark on the horizon would engulf me

Life isn't about the years you lived. It is about how you lived.

Earth, water, fire, and wind. Where there is energy there is life.

Love is a temporary madness; it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.” ~Louis de Bernieres

We all need to believe in something. It gives us a reason to get up in the morning. Something to fight for.

We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers.

The lottery question might get you thinking about what you would do if talent and money didn't matter. But they do. The question twentysomethings need to ask themselves is what they would do with their lives if they didn't win the lottery.

But he told me that most of the time he stayed on the boardwalk, facing the water, just the way we were sitting now even when it got cold and he had to wear his newspapers after he read them.And I asked him why. Why didn't he go to one of the shelters? Why didn't he check himself into the hospital for detox? And he just stared out at the ocean and said, "Look at the view, young lady. Look at the view.