Life Quotes - Page 278

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

How can anyone be against love?

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.

On the way to work, concentrate on the way - not the work.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and therefore to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees - everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now and we will have no wars.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

Life is for my own to live my own way.

Don't get stressed over the little things and make sure you're enjoying life to the fullest.

Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life manipulate you - instead of training you to manipulate life.

Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.

The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.