Life Quotes - Page 275

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.

The hardest thing about life is that every now and then you have to do things so you have something to tweet about.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

The art of life is loving and listening to one another.

Life is mostly froth and bubble

My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.

Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.

Every Christian should live life with an open Bible and an open map.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.

Any time not spent on love is wasted.

Life is nothing but a mirror of your consistent thoughts.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.

"Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.