Life Quotes - Page 281

Most people tell you they want to get out of kindergarten, but don't believe them. Don't believe them! All they want you to do is to mend their broken toys. "Give me back my wife. Give me back my job. Give me back my money. Give me back my reputation, my success." This is what they want; they want their toys replaced. That's all. Even the best psychologist will tell you that, that people don't really want to be cured. What they want is relief; a cure is painful.

Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.

Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for Him.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within — and make the point: This can be done.

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.

Make use of time, let not advantage slip.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek to break the record of our yesterday. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair past follies; each day to surpass...ourselves. And this is but progress.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.

Here is an affirmation for today: I feel passionately about my life, and this passion fills me with excitement and energy!

Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert.

Oh what's love got to do, got to do with it What's love but a second hand emotion What's love got to do, got to do with it Who needs a heart When a heart can be broken

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.

How many times do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain Unravelled from the trembling main And threading the eye of a yellow star:- So many times do I love again.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.