Life Quotes - Page 287

Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life

I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within.

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

The search ends with the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment. By searching, you want to be free from the self, but whatever you are doing to free yourself from the self is the self. How can I make you understand this simple thing? There is no 'how'. If I tell you that, it will only add more momentum to that (search), strengthen that momentum. That is the question of all questions: "How, how, how?"

Give us this day our daily mask.

Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on.

I've been giving out chances every time and all you do is let me down.

Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.

Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some mark behind. Otherwise, where is the difference between you and the trees and stones? They too come into existence, decay and die.

Your inner peace has nothing to do with your dramas of your life.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.

Anything is possible. Anything can be.

My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.

So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!