Life Quotes - Page 279

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

Life is fragile, handle with prayer.

It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.

I applied for a job at Starbucks. One of the questions was, 'Why do you want to work at Starbucks?' Uh, because my life is in shambles.

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.

Be the hero of your own life story.

We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.

For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit.

Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Be mindful of the words that you use and the actions that you live and who you are and how it is you use your power. Keep clear at all times that you are what you say you are.

I've learned that courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin, and that every warrior, every humanitarian, every citizen is built to live with both. In fact, to win a war, to create peace, to save a life, or just to live a good life requires of us - of every one of us - that we be both good and strong.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Your path is your own, but you must walk side by side with others, with compassion and generosity as your beacons. If anything is required it is this: fearlessness in your examination of life and death; Willingness to continually grow; and openness to the possibility that the ordinary is extraordinary, and that your joys and your sorrows have meaning and mystery

What I really want out of life is to discover something new, something mankind didn’t know was possible to do.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; But a greater thing is to fight life through, and at the end, 'The dream is true!'

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

I can't live and hold the camera, someone gotta take this

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.