Life Quotes - Page 289

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.

As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's necessary for a good life on our own, because we need other people.

Do you wanna leave soon? No, I want enough time to be in love with everything... And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.

Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Life is so great. Life is so fun. Life is so great in my head because I see the love. I see what life could be. As long as I can fulfill it and fulfill my days, it will be fruitful and come about.

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things take their own natural course.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

Everything is everything What is meant to be, will be After winter, must come spring Change, it comes eventually

Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Karate-Do is a lifetime study

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I might choose for them. My love is fluid, flexible, committed, creative. My love allows people and events to unfold as they need. My love is not controlling. It does not dictate or demand. My love allows those I love the freedom to assume the forms most true to them. I release all those I love from my preconceptions of their path. I allow them the dignity of self-definition while I offer them a constant love that is every variable in shape.

Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.

Life is full of surprises.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.