Life Quotes - Page 236

It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into.

A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.

I have never known a woman who, after her baby was born, was not overjoyed that I had not killed it.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

The catalyst that converts any physical location - any environment if you will - into a place, is the process of experiencing deeply. A place is a piece of the whole environment that has been claimed by feelings. Viewed simply as a life-support system, the earth is an environment. Viewed as a resource that sustains our humanity, the earth is a collection of places.

Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

Nothing has to happen for me to feel good! I feel good because I'm alive! Life is a gift, and I revel in it.

All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.

Nowadays, people are so jeezled up. If they took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the evening listening to the liquid song of the hermit thrush, they might enjoy life more.

Enjoying life isn't about finding the answers, but living the questions.

It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.

Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.

The goal of all life is death