Life Quotes - Page 292

The idea that you live your life in phases - I've never bought that. I feel like I'm the same person who sat in at the draft board in 1965, I'm the same person who joined a fraternity, I'm the same person who got an MFA at Bennington, and I'm the same person who founded Weather Underground. My values are still intact.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.

The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.

Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails clean and is never a burden to anyone. Greatest fault: Lacks family, cheerful spirits, and strong stomach. Greatest and only petition: Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin: Does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life: None.

Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Greatness lives on the edge of destruction

Each color lives by its mysterious life.