Life Quotes - Page 536

If we are to climb that mountain, we had better find that molehill.

You can hurt some of the people some of the time, you never can hurt all the people all the time but you can love all the people most of the time.

It is good to work for your living.

Invariably, knowledge dictates life, liberty, and death, but those who have historically occupied the seats of power not only dictate what is defined as knowledge but also dictate what’s included, what’s excluded, and how it is filtered to society vis-à-vis America’s major institutions . . . particularly the educational system; ultimately, shaping the very essence of life.

A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey.

Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

You have to choose what you want to be.You have to choose your own path in life.

Be grateful. You have enough and abundant life

Find people who can handle your darkest truths, who don’t change the subject when you share your pain, or try to make you feel bad for feeling bad. Find people who understand we all struggle, some of us more than others, and that there’s no weakness in admitting it. In fact, few things take as much strength. Find people who want to be real, however that looks and feels, and who want you to be real, too. Find people who get that life is hard, and who get that life is also beautiful, and who aren’t afraid to honor both those realities. Find people who help you feel more at home in your heart, mind and body, and who take joy in your joy. Find people who love you, for real, and who accept you, for real. Just as you are. They’re out there, these people. Your tribe is waiting for you. Don’t stop searching until you find them.9/30/16Then her heart opened wider than it ever had before,and all she saw before her, everywhere she looked, were people to love.

Unleash your potential. Seek the opportunity to make a difference. Success is attainable. You just have to reach out and grab it.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

All my life, I ain't understand shit about what was going on. A thing just happen, then something else happen, then something else, an so on, and half the time nothing making any sense. But Dan say it is all part of a scheme of some sort, and the best way we can get along is figure out how we fit into the scheme, and then try to stick to our place. Somehow knowing this, things get a good bit clearer for me.

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

Ruby said there were many songs that you could not say anybody in particular had made by himself. A song went around from fiddler to fiddler and each one added something and took something away so that in time the song became a different thing from what it had been, barely recognizable in either tune or lyric. But you could not say the song had been improved, for as was true of all human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to the thing gained, so that over time we'd be lucky if we just broke even. Any thought otherwise was empty pride.

We may never be able to forget what has happened. We may harbor the sadness from it in our hearts forever. The former of these is unavoidable.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Change & transformation. That kind of magic.

He began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark. In the Creation of Ea, which is the oldest song, it is said, 'Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.

We must be true ambassadors of Christ on the earth in order to be able to put an end to the plague of ignorance in our society.

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

People do not become world's richest men by praying but by time conversion into products.

A difference of opinion does two things if you allow it, expands the mind and widens the heart.

I wanted to evaluate my own escape from the crowds in 5 different stages so that I could clarify my thoughts and help my readers get more benefits.(1) Getting away from the media(2) Getting away from the big city(3) Going to nature as a life style(4) Getting away from the social media(5) Being only with people I want

What a huge inaccessible lumber-room of thought and experience we amounted to, I thought; how much we are, how little we transmit.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

We can all receive the gifts of our unique ancestry and harness them to forge a path of joy and healing.

When you can only remember the mundane things you did but do not have any valuable products to show for your time, then you are a time spender.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

If you really desire greatness, you should make up your mind to be a hard worker.

We are a blessing to each other.

The proof that most people don’t know how to measure their life by converting time into products is reflected in what they do with their free vacation time.

After my mom died she ate my father up completely. She would have hated it. Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. And when I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird. If I had to live on without you I know I could not do it. But I hope, I have this vision of you walking unencumbered, with your shining hair in the sun. I have not seen this with my eyes, but only with my imagination, that makes pictures, that always wanted to paint you, shining; but I hope that this vision will be true, anyway.

A geas was a contract with the goddess of Fate. Sometimes one was born indentured, other times it was bestowed upon one as a curse. Because if one did not fulfill the terms of one's geas, one died. It was old magic, the magic of the gods, spoken in the tongues of those who controlled the dragons—and it was supposed to be extinct.

You can have anything you need in life, the only price you have to pay is for you to exchange your life for greatness and greatness will deliver that thing you need to you.

There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never be overcome by evil – an evil that is itself eternal but will never succeed in overcoming good – whenever we see this dawn, the blood of old people and children is always shed.

I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension.

To bury something, it is often considered, either means the end of something or the passing on into the realm of the earth or the sky, only the dead could ever know. But it is not only the dead that we bury. We bury objects, memories, thoughts and emotions among other things. Contrary to popular belief burying something is not the end of it because even though it is suppressed beneath layers of earth or self control, the dead and buried don’t always remain that way and that is where the stories come from, the stories that haunt us for the rest of our no longer carefree lives.

Living erotically is opening oneself up to nature-- externally and within.

What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed

Life is an open book as far as potential is concerned.

There is so little time. We need to make every moment count.

Because if I'm going to spend at least seventy-five percent of my waking hours doing something, I want that something to have meaning. I am tired of wasting my time. I am starting to realize that I want my life to matter in every way that it can.

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.

Procrastination is the enemy of action!

I think that's what we all want, in the end.To know that we left footprints when we passed by, however briefly.We want to be remembered.So remember us.Please.Remember us.

Everything you have is bought by the currency of time.

When you gaze out on a quiet, peaceful meadow, next to a still pond, under a motionless blue sky, you wonder how the noisy, busy cacophony of life could have arisen from such silent, motionless beginning.

Be an inspiration for short time than living for a long time

If this world always made sense and there wasn't the gloomy dark nights that awakened your soul, you would never grow ~ you would never become, nor seek greater version of yourself.

There is no answer for life, creation, or mankind. We make the answer.

All of history has pointed its refining focus to your life this moment.

Dare to dwell on great thoughts, you will be great.

And they...LIVED! Life isn't always ‘Happily Ever After’, rather, loving FOREVER, regardless.

If every man could eat, thinking about another man, life would have been much easier.

To have extreme, laser-like focus, you must be willing to reject a lot of opportunities, even if they sound great.

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.

If you know what the treasure of time is worth, if you know that time is a resource, then you will actually be able to convert your time into any product you want.