Life Quotes - Page 528

There’s something about being naïve. Really interesting things come because you don’t know what the rules are, what you can and can’t do.

Men don't cry. They endure.

The way we live, decides the meaning of life.And the way we die, tells how much meaningful we made it.

Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.

Life never goes according to plan. That's okay, because often our plans are much smaller than life intends. Probably EASIER, but smaller.

I wanted to ask my father about his regrets. I wanted to ask him what was the worst thing he'd ever done. His greatest sin. I wanted to ask him if there was any reason why the Catholic Church would consider him for sainthood. I wanted to open up his dictionary and find the definitions for faith, hope, goodness, sadness, tomato, son, mother, husband, virginity, Jesus, wood, sacrifice, pain, foot, wife, thumb, hand, bread, and sex. "Do you believe in God?" I asked my father."God has lots of potential," he said."When you pray," I asked him. "What do you pray about?""That's none of your business," he said. We laughed. We waited for hours for somebody to help us. What is an Indian? I lifted my father and carried him across every border.

Did you ever, when you were little, endure your parents’ warnings, then wait for them to leave the room, pry loose protective covers and consider inserting some metal object into an electrical outlet? Did you wonder if for once you might light up the room? When you were big enough to cross the street on your own, did you ever wait for a signal, hear the frenzied approach of a fire truck and feel like stepping out in front of it? Did you wonder just how far that rocket ride might take you? When you were almost grown, did you ever sit in a bubble bath, perspiration pooling, notice a blow dryer plugged in within easy reach, and think about dropping it into the water? Did you wonder if the expected rush might somehow fail you? And now, do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.

The Saviour is a life-giving light.

Love is the most valuable currency of life which you can spend as much as you want without the risk of bankruptcy.

Never had anyone said, "Listen. Life is short. Pretend your body is still in its twenties. Jump for the brass ring. Swing for those bleachers. Dive into the deep end of the pool. Act like a fool if you must, but at least *live*.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

I became to understand you and all of you.

Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world

Love expands your soul with something inexplicably fulfilling. If you die without ever having experienced it, you will miss life's only true joy

There’s a difference between a mistake and a regret. Everything up to this moment has made this moment. If you can change a mistake, then go out and do what you can to change it. If you can’t change it, there’s no use regretting it because it will just make you miserable. Live right now, even if that involves dealing with the consequences of your actions. Time travel always ends badly.

Life is sweet absurdity, Sir Wizard. Laugh your way through it.

The fact that neither of us made sense was the beauty of it.

Life is a lonely bussiness

Hawaii was paradise, Milan was beautiful but New York was electric.

Women have got it all wrong now. They give it up too soon, and the men don't respect them. And before you tell me I don't have a clue, let me tell you something. By the time I let my future husbands climb into my bed, I'd made them work for it. And you know what? By the time they left it the next morning, they were begging for me to marry them.

When you don’t come closer to the goal and don’t make everyday steps for achieving it, we will not get the results we inwardly set out to attain

If God permit you to fall, He will definitely stand by you to rise.

I dance through life, living my bliss, steeped in joy.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

There's nothing as useful as the truth, in terms of ruining anyone's day, week, month, year, decade, or life… Unless, of course, you own a remotely operated automatic flamethrower-drone-tower and have some marinated pork-chops on your person, to lure unsuspecting dogs in close proximity to it, but since dogs don’t really have lives - by using this specific method of torture, you can only improve the remaining few seconds of their existence.

The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.

Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.

When we see one another as different aspects of ourselves—as ourselves experiencing a different situation and circumstance—we develop a love, a connection, and a unity that allows us to see beyond the various forms, as well as the various ways that someone may act out when they have forgotten their connection and their formless nature. If you look at another in this light, you will see a Being that is just like you, looking back at you

You cannot carry your past without dropping your future.

You have no control of uncertainties! You can only control your life and your reaction to any event. May you find grace for patient endurance.

If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.

I did not know of any single soul who succeed in life without a mentorship.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.

History will always repeat itself, because it makes for good reading. It doesn't have to be truthful or factual, just entertaining with the odd fact thrown in for good measure.

Consider your actions and words. Be thoughtful when expressing your feelings or concerns. Sometimes it's not what you say, but the way you say it. That makes all the difference

It’s good if you can accept your life—you’ll noticeYour face has become deranged trying to adjustTo it. Your face thought your life would lookLike your bedroom mirror when you were ten.That was a clear river touched by mountain wind.Even your parents can’t believe how much you’vechanged.

Whatever happens to us is beneficial.

Our place of birth is not so much as important as our place of berth, yet we can't moore. If we do we know our birthplace for the first time.

Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not demand more revelation than what is given, be quiet in the face of it, quiet and grateful that it has been given to you to see this, to be for even a short time aware of the extraordinary layered depths and profound beauty of the world to which we mostly blind ourselves.

I think that's every unresolved person's dream, to wake up one day and know what they want to do the rest of their life.

We must remember each day we wake up that, there is something best to think about always than the better things we think about always

This thing that troubles you is only one small part of your life. Don't allow it to be all-consuming when there's so much more to embrace.

Rhetorical question: Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo?I didn't.

I whisper over to myself the way of loss, the names of the dead. One by one, we lose our loved ones, our friends, our powers of work and pleasure, our landmarks, the days of our allotted time. One by one, the way we lose them, they return to us and are treasured up in our hearts. Grief affirms, them, preserves them, sets the cost. Finally a man stands up alone, scoured and charred like a burnt tree, having lost everything and (at the cost only of its loss) found everything, and is ready to go. Now I am ready.

How can you be afraid to live yet scared to die?

No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?

Loss taught me about the frailty and transient nature of man. It taught me humility. It taught me about the urgency of service, of touching lives, of mentoring, of legacy. Of making hay while there is still sunshine and life.

See the world anew and write down the bones of it.

We can only live life when we understand life.

The time has come to harness the blessed power within us and to use it to transcend from our current existence into a more empowered reality.

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Learning is the process of making ideas, while studying is the process of using those ideas.

When you know the inside stories, no matter how good looks the cover, you just cannot appreciate it...

And it seemed increasingly obvious that the world would have to topple if he was to attain the glory that was rightfully his. They were consubstantial: glory and the capsized world.

It's easy to be humble when your life's prosper.Nothing could be denigrated when life's so poor.

Follow your heart only if it has your mind's feet.