Life Quotes - Page 298

It's the little things that you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness.

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth and one of the shortest-lived.

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

To perceive is to suffer.

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact - to borrow from the language of the saints - to live 'in grace' as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony.

Loving God is like my being black. I just am. [No one says] 'You know what? I'm gonna be blacker today!' It's my culture. It's not something I put on or take off or show more. You just communicate that in the way you live your life.

Take time to smell the roses. Appreciating the little things in life really can make all the difference.

One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Music creates order out of chaos.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.