Inspirational Quotes - Page 422

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.

You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.

I didn't like where I once was, so I promised myself I wouldn't be back there.

What good does it do to have all the riches of the world and all the world's pleasures? They will all disappear in the flash we call a human lifetime. Focusing on the pleasures of the world keeps the mind too distracted to search for the inner Self.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

We boil at different degrees.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk.

The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Environment is stronger than will.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.