Life Quotes - Page 267

I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era - it should never leave you.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

My life is like a speeding bullet that just hasn't hit the target yet.

When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

The only real problem in your life is how you're using your mind.

It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.

Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off somewhere else! ...just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.

The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before, and which they were not capable of alone. The consciousness of belonging, vitally, to something beyond individuality; of being part of a personality that reaches we know not where, in space and time, greatens the heart to the limit of the souls ideal, and builds out the supreme character.

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

Life itself is a quotation.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide.

At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.

Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.

When we are ready, [Jesus Christ's] pure love instantly moves across time and space, reaches down, and pulls us up from the depths of any tumultuous sea of darkness, sin, sorrow, death, or despair we may find ourselves in and brings us into the light and life and love of eternity.