Life Quotes - Page 403

I thought it peculiar how one new experience can alter your perspective on places you've known your whole life.

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

There are two possibilities: accept the reality or change yourself to get ready to accept the reality.

Life is a drama of love, hopes, dreams, desires, and fears. To enjoy it, be bold to overcome fear.

Education does not solve any problem but it gives you the ability to solve the problem.

Your purpose on earth is to participate in this human experience and to seize the opportunity within each day to reveal the greatest version of yourself.

Dumb ideas come from people who have dumb brains

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

The purpose of life has eternal consequences

The worldly life means a market place of sensual pleasures. Worldly life means false (temporary) happiness all the time. And moksha (liberation) means permanent happiness all the time.

A real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things that can be named.

Giving is the only way of taking part

Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living - to always have a thing to look forward to.

In ancient times people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half.

It’s great to feel happy. Go, do what makes you feel happy. Do it shabbily and get shallow happiness; Do it hard and feel the hardest happiness!

I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the rst oor people gather together to take their meals, watch television, and talk. e second oor contains private chambers, bedrooms where people go to read books, listen to music by themselves, and so on. en there is a basement;this is a special place, and there are a number of things stored here. We don’t use this room much in our daily life, but some- times we come in, vaguely hang around the place. en, my thought is that underneath that basement room is yet another basement room. is one has a very special door, very di - cult to gure out, and normally you can’t get in there—some people never get in at all. . . . You go in, wander about in the darkness, and experience things there you wouldn’t see in the normal parts of the house. You connect with your past there, because you have entered into your own soul. But then you come back. If you stay over there for long you can never get back to reality.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.

It would be ridiculous to hold your breath and blame others for your inability to breathe. In the same sense, it is ridiculous to live an unaligned life and blame God for your misfortune.

I know my life's meaningful because" - and here he stopped, and looked shy, and was silent for a moment before he continued - " because I'm a good friend. I love my friends, and I care about them, and I think I make them happy.

You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

Much of your happiness and joy in life will come from your ability to get along with people –but more importantly your decision to walk in love every day.

When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.

Why settle for a lesser vision? When you are destiny for greatness!

The past has no power over the present moment.

Your decisions are the A.I.R. (Action, Impact, and Result) or the breath of life you take each day to live. Each decision is made from your action, the impact of the action, and the results of that action.

The world is full of angels; if you can’t find one, be one.

Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts, but as a whole, each portion of which throws light on all the other, and that the tendency of all is to improve the human mind, and give it new sources of power and enjoyment … narrow minds think nothing of importance but their own favorite pursuit, but liberal views exclude no branch of science or literature, for they all contribute to sweeten, to adorn, and to embellish life … science is the pursuit above all which impresses us with the capacity of man for intellectual and moral progress and awakens the human intellect to aspiration for a higher condition of humanity.[Joseph Henry was the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, named after its benefactor, James Smithson.]

and the idea of nothingness — the most terrifying of all ideas, when thought of with feeling — has, in my dear master’s work and in my memories of him, something as high and luminous as sunlight upon snowy, unscalable peaks.

The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.

Tactical use of the media can be equated to power behind your skill or special ability. It is in the power of the media to help market your brand. You just need to look at Hollywood, European football, Bollywood, Nollywood, Global fashion & modeling, showbiz and even humanitarian efforts, to appreciate that the making and destroying of stars, initiatives and legends is to a greater extent influenced by the role played by the media.

I wondered what a man I had encountered the day before on the plane en route to Chicago's O'Hare airport would have made of this. As he tried to push through a crowded aisle, he said loudly: "Life is never easy. And it's never pleasant." I couldn't let this go. I looked up at him from my seat and said, "I do hope life gives you cause to change that opinion. Otherwise you may find that opinion walking ahead of you, giving you more and more reasons to believe it.

Death is never an excuse to stop living.

waitingin a life full of little storiesfor a death to come

Thinking, Garraty thought. That’s the day’s business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn’t matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you’re alone.

The spirit of life, the spirit of peace.

Don’t ever let Them tell youyou aretoo broken to bloom

Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.

You have two choices in life: you can dissolve into the mainstream or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no one else but you can be.

We shall find true happiness once you have learnt to accept your loneliness.

i love watching what you become when life thinks it has you cornered.

Do all the work you can, there is enough rest in the grave.

Bring your reality to life by mining the intuitive abilities of your heart.

Perpetual possibilities exist to win the game of life.

Your task is not to find a job but to find what makes you happy and do it with all your love.

There's a thine line between being a hero and being a memory.

How beautiful it is to be stress free and bloom slowly like a flower.

Life is a dark stage on which you were born to shine.

Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.

Keep learning, keep learning!

Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.

To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself.

Remember, light and shadow never stand still.

Wishful thinking does wonders for a wishful mind; but in the end, reality always has the final say.

To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong.

To overcome the sadness of our hearts, we must remember the joys of our lives.

when the uncertainty is known, certainty is guaranteed. Until we unravel the uncertainties of our lives, we shall always be uncertain with the life we live

Everyone has their own purpose on this earth. It's up to you to figure out what your purpose in life is. No one can make that decision for you.

There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.