Life Quotes - Page 265

Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man.

The things you own end up owning you.

It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.

Breathe. It's only a bad day not a bad life.

I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all. On a still night, when the campfire is low and the Pleiades have climbed over rimrocks, sit quietly and listen, and think hard of everything you have seen and tried to understand. Then you may hear it - a vast pulsing harmony - its score inscribed on a thousand hills, its notes the lives and deaths of plants and animals, its rhythms spanning the seconds and the centuries.

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy. Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are - no holding on, no attachment, free.

Making a big life change is pretty scary. But know what's even scarier? Regret.

So often we experience things in life, and yet never see the connections between them. When we are given hardship, or feel pain, we often fail to consider that the experience may be the direct cause or result of another action or experience. Sometimes we fail to recognize the direct connection between the pain in our lives and our relationship with Allah SWT

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Lord, let me live until I die.

All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.

Love truth, but pardon error.

Life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve.

How do we fight back? By creating art.

When writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence...in love, never settle...value yourself first and this will help you to value others...life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest...everyone in the world is different, and that's ok.

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give.

If you don't execute on your plans, then you don't reach anywhere.

The better you are at communicating, negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.