Life Quotes - Page 302

My mother was my beauty icon my whole life.

Life is but a dream for the dead.

The thing about courage is it’s something that we have to learn and relearn our whole lives. It’s not just in you, it’s in every choice we make every day.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

You are the absolute creator of what happens to you. This means now. [...] There is awesome power in knowing this fact. As long as there is even one tiny part of you that thinks the world is doing it to you, the world is going to do it to you. When you know 100% that you create it, you will start influencing the world around you in a much bigger and more positive way.

Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.

I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

The Lord called me by the way of simplicity and humility, and this way He hath shown me in truth for me and those who will believe and imitate me. And therefore I would that ye name not to me any rule, neither of St. Augustine, nor St. Benedict, nor of Bernard, nor any way or form of living, but that which was mercifully shown and given me by the Lord.

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

I don't have any problems in life, just situations.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

Some of the homes that have been built in the last 10 years just appall me. Why do humans need huge homes? I was born poor and I didn’t know you bought clothes at anything but the Goodwill until I went to college. Some of our mentality about what it means to have a good life is, I think, not going to help us in the next 50 years. We have to think through how to choose a meaningful life where we’re helping one another in ways that really help the Earth.

Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.

It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.

Each soul enters with a mission. We all have a mission to perform.

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.

Angels assist us in connecting with a powerful yet gentle force, which encourages us to live life to it's fullest.