Life Quotes - Page 273

This story inspires me to contribute with something unique and exciting for my time.

The greatest people in history were those who lived a life of significance and service. You can join them if you’re willing to serve.

She made me her everything. She didn’t realize then that when you make someone your everything, when they are gone you have nothing left. I have since learned that our Master sends us soul mates who teach us to depend on them and then we come to believe we cannot live without them. Then He takes them away to prove to us that we can indeed live without them, but also to prove that we cannot live without Him.

We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.

If we loved children, we would have a few. If we had them, we would want them as children, and would love the wonder with which they behold the world, and would hope some of it might open our eyes a little. We would love their games, and would want to play them once in a while, stirring in ourselves those memories of play that no one regrets, and that are almost the only things an old man can look back on with complete satisfaction. We would want children tagging along after us, or if not, then only because we would understand that they had better things to do.

Love dances with joy in your smile.

The wealth of time is the only wealth that is more valuable than human resources.

My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.

We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.

Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn.

The more you think of what is right, the more you tend to make every action in your mind right. The more you think of the goal you have in view, the more life and power you will call into action in working for that goal. The more you think of your ambition, the more power you will give to those faculties that can make your ambitions come true. The more you think of harmony, of health, of success, of happiness, of things that are desirable, of things that are beautiful, of things that have true worth, the more the mind will tend to build all those things in yourself, provided, of course, that all such thinking is subjective.

You do not need to go to any temple or church to worship God. The whole existence is God’s temple. Your own body is the temple of God. Your own heart is the shrine. You do not need to subscribe to any religion to experience God. The only religion you need to experience God is love, kindness and respect to all beings.

To feel the joy of life, love what you do.

What Walter thinks is that people are like rivers. We never stay in the same place but jest keep flowing along, learning new stuff and picking up new experiences and changing all the time. So today’s you isn’t the same as yesterday’s you and won’t be the same as tomorrow’s you. But Walter also thinks that there’s a real perfect you that you’re always trying to get to, and the better you are at living your life, the closer you come to it.

The only way to be happy is to prepare your mind to be happy.

When we learn to use the power of love then the world will see the peace.

We never know when our last day on earth will be. So, love with full sincerity, believe with true faith, and hope with all of your might. Better to have lived in truth and discovered life, than to have lived half heartedly and died long before you ever ceased breathing.

What's freedom for? To know eternity.

Have fun! Live it up! Be happy! Enjoy every moment!

Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work.

The light is flame of life.

Love unconditionally, love endlessly, love blissfully.

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

The best we can do is take the history we have and deal with it.

All the bravery that lines our lives, in the ordinary moments adds up to an extraordinary, successful life.

An art is a poetry but only a few can read it.

Be appreciative about others, don’t criticize or crib about them. Gossiping will only fill you with negativity. Speak well about others. Positivity begets positivity. Don’t be in a hurry to pass judgment or criticize, check yourself before you do. It’ll pass- once you make a deliberate effort to be positive. If you can’t speak well of others then you have no right to speak ill either. A critical attitude spoils everything. You aren’t happy; in turn you don’t give your best, resultantly you get ticked off. Because you get ticked off you crib and criticize little realizing that you started this vicious circle in the first place. What, then, is the solution? It’s simple. Learn to see the good in everything and, more importantly, ignore the bad. Don’t go to the garden to see only those patches where there’s no grass, the beds where the flowers have not been able to bloom or the places where there are overgrown hedges. Instead go to relax, see the flowers in full bloom. Be thankful that you have sight to see things- you are not blind. Don’t criticize the elevator that broke down this morning- be thankful that you are strong enough to climb stairs. Don’t find fault with your boss and your job- be grateful that you have a job. Don’t look at the world through a tainted window- clean it first and you will realize that it’s bright and sunny outside.

We are never free when we imprison ourselves in the prison of our fixed, false beliefs.

The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.

Longing, whether for a passion or person, is one of the most powerful, yet painful, emotions there is. It can drive you to its source under the most extreme conditions, or it can cripple you from obtaining your dreams. When it comes to the pull you feel, always go after it, if not, it'll eat you alive.

Life is life. You choose to live it or you do not.

The spark of divinity enfolds in love, in light and in faith.

who accompany ignorants, lives in misery.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.

With diligence, discipline and determination you can fulfill the dream.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Actually, all the life we keep deceiving eachother. Because, life is too short to hate someone.

I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgmental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people.

Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning.

What are we before love? But thoughts floating upon a sea. Searching for a shore to explore, to gaze into infinity.

You may not be a great success when you are too busy with life and forget to love.

You can only become great through the power of time conversion.

When she turned to see me smiling. It was an awkward smile, but you only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expected it to be.

Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes.

Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.

I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention,my focus, myself.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)

What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ("Give me more images")

The courage to admit when you're wrong doesn't show weakness. It shows your strength. Your integrity speaks volumes about you as a person.

Think global; Think big! Think of planting a seed for unborn generations to taste; Think of making a shade that will provide comfort to others. If what you enjoy now appeals to you, thank God for the life of those who made it happen. However, the good news is that "you too can make it happen"!

I'm grateful for today. I'm stronger, braver, wiser.

Solitude helps you to discover that you can walk through life all by yourself and that you don’t need to be dependent on anything.

If there’s a takeaway from working here, it’s an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not if, when.

I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.

When you consciously choose to do what you love, life becomes a pleasure and ceases to be a chore.

Open all windows and let love come in.

A sensitive person must find a sensitive life partner otherwise a raw life partner would become a puzzle for his/her entire life

Purpose is the reason something is designed, made, created, or exists.