Life Quotes - Page 305

The journey is the reward

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death. The greatest tragedy is to be alive and not know why

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.

Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

We get ready for death by beginning to live life as we should have been living it all along.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.

That ... is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.

Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future.

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!