Life Quotes - Page 274

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

The game ain't always fair and that's the thing though. You can play your heart out, everyone don't get a ring though.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments.

Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.

Custom is the great guide to human life.

How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?

May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?

It's multifaceted, the message to our music. It's not just that. It's about individuality, development of self, finding things in life that you can be passionate about.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

Life is measured in achievement not in years alone

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.