Life Quotes - Page 304

Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

When you are tough on yourself, life is inevitably easy. When you are easy on yourself, life will be inevitably difficult.

I keep wondering if there is an afterlife, and if there is will they be able to break a twenty?

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.

It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.

Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving.

Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over many centuries by the patience and sacrifice of countless liberty-loving men and women. It serves as a cloak for the protection of poor and rich, of black and white, of Jew and Gentile, of foreign and native born. Let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when man will find its protective warmth again.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Life is a school of probability.

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

Be curious about life, and cautious with it!

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

Those who live are those who fight.

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

If anyone can show me ... that there is any reason - other than fear - to believe in any version of an afterlife, I'll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

Life's a journey, not a destination.