Life Quotes - Page 271

As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."

Don't be a perfectionist, because perfectionists often spend too much time on little differences at the margins at the expense of other big, important things. Be an effective imperfectionist. Solutions that broadly work well (e.g., how people should contact each other in the event of crises) are generally better than highly specialized solutions (e.g., how each person should contact each other in the event of every conceivable crisis).

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Life is a long pilgrimage from fear to love.

Life is lived only once. And the less seriously the better.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.

The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.

Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain and be prosperous, though we live dangerous.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

I can't change your life till I can get you to change your daily routine.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

If you don't pass through anything in life, you can't be anything.

Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.