Life Quotes - Page 278

Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.

But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.

Life gives you what you expect, what you are prepared to put up with or can change.

Everywhere I go, it's me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.

Self-denial is the first quality of love

Use time to create the nature of God in yourself

I hold life sacred, even more since I’ve tasted freedom,... But I've lost my fear of death... But if you join me, I will gladly give my life for you. Because this land and its people have lost too much.

I woke up this morning as I do every morning, with an attitude of gratitude.

Sometimes you’re left with only 1 choice: Take what’s yours and run for you life.

The aim is to produce specific results by your actions, so you begin to do things on purpose. If I leave things to chance, I am losing the plot to make success deliberate, meaning I am increasing my chances of failing in any given task.

In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.

Your calling is buried in your background and life experience

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder

Whether good or bad, it was I that did the damage, and the wisest rule in life, note the aftermath and how to manage.

Perfecting is a journey...There is no destination called perfection.

Often, we only dream of something but do not fulfill our purpose and that is because we do not know how to go from dream to its fulfilment

If I could give you just one thing, I’d want it to be a simple truth that took me many years to learn. If you learn it now, it may enrich your life in hundreds of ways. And it may prevent you from facing many problems that have hurt people who have never learned it.The truth is simply this:No one owes you anything.

Peace will be there when you will be looking for it and ready for it.

Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist. (From the short story, "Charity".)

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Joblessness gives you liberty

How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it?

I want you. I want you so badly I can’t stand it. When you left, it felt like the world got darker. Like I couldn’t truly see anything. Couldn’t feel anything.

I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.

If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.

I have all gifts on earth minus one....Patience to do what the devil wants me to do. My bible taught me a lot about taking some things in my life by force. People do tell me sometimes take it easy, God didn´t tell me to take things easy, He says take Charge. Some people do tell me to be careful! But my bible didn´t tell me to be careful but it says I should be careful for nothing. Some people tell me to take time but my bibles says take charge. Some people says be patient but my bible says whatever your hands finds to do, do it quickly.So don´t only memorise your weakness, try to saturate your strength with the power of God, always have an alternative for any negative suggestion.

You are not your emotions and they are not who you are, only how you feel at the moment.

Love is not a mere sentiment but an instrument of ability.

Rich people don’t work for money, they are doing what they like to do; they devote themselves to a job they love and do not live waiting for a well-deserved rest or retirement, but work passionately until the end of their lives

I didn't want to sing. I wanted to be music.

But I was living my life sideway. I did not act on what I wanted, I did not say the things I thought, and being so stifled and clamped all the time left me exhausted; no matter what I was doing, I was always imagining something else.

It's not enough that you move through the world - you must change it to suit your expectations.

Lost. He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one, that imprisoned in the dark womb of our mother, we come to life without having seen her face, that we are given to her arms a stranger, and that, caught in that insoluble prison of being, we escape it never, no matter what arms may clasp us, what mouth may kiss us, what heart may warm us. Never, never, never, never, never.

The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of these successive forms, as stages of evolution of the same type, is established in various cases.

Tonight I want to stand on the side of a cliff and look down, dare the wind to gust and knock me off. Everyone thinks that falling to your death is the worst thing that can happen. But that’s a lie. The worst thing is to be alive for no reason.

Not the intense momentIsolated, with no before and after,But a lifetime burning in every moment.

Their bony branches grew barer with each tearing wind. Their tall, leaning forms looked like a gateway to a long-abandoned world. They lived. Their roots were much deeper than mine would ever be. One day my tree would fall and die, gnawed by serpents.

A life without increase, production and multiplication is a wasted one

But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it.

The universe never complains.When you're wrong or right,She always loves and cares,She always gives and shares. When you get lost she becomes the light,Helps you to find what is right. But she never forgetsTo show you the light.

We trust and rely on God at all times.

Choose to regret nothing in your life. The only thing you can change is your future.

Sometimes you have to "play the part" to become the part.

If you truly want to pursue and achieve the success you were created for, you must recognize the role of vision, the significance of dreams and the power of actions without which you are just making a living.

Peace is always kind.

So enjoy the exhilaration when it comes. Take the ride to the heights when you get the opportunity. But don't get hooked on the thrill of the moment. Take charge of your emotions. And when it comes time to do the right thing, don't let your feelings lead you to compromise. That is the way to live a happier, more successful life and one that is more pleasing to God.

Beauty of heaven and earth resides in our heart and it is the joyful reflection of the soul.

The world only gives money to those who have converted their time into products.

In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective.

Oppression has been in existence as long as man himself has been in existence.

For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be extraordinary, charming, and appealing, and whom many honor as benevolent spirits, because they make one think of a more beautiful, a freer, a more winged life than the one we lead.

Time should be invested instead of wasting it or spending it.

The most basic elements of our life—our birth and our death—are out of our control. People spend a lifetime trying to control these things but it’s impossible.

If we can learn anything from Lord Ganesha, it is: Be sincere and care no one in the line of duty.

What do you do when you cannot see any light? Where do you go when you cannot see any path? So I became the wanderer and wandering became my destiny!

Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

Livin' ain't livin' if your livin' ain't givin'.

Words are living things.

We ought to courageously live life

What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.