Life Quotes - Page 309

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master.

Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

It is the only happy life to live for the salvation of souls.

All in all I learned a lesson from it though. You never see it coming you just get to see it go.

I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.

Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements and five clusters, if they practice sincerely they attain enlightenment. Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. This is because the four elements and five clusters and plants, trees, fences and walls are fellow students; because they are of the same essence, because they are the same mind and the same life, because they are the same body and the same mechanism.

Change your story, change your life. Basically, that's what it is.

The journey has to feel the way you want the destination to feel.

There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments against a god, no agreement among believers about the nature or moral principles of a god, and no need for a god. We can live happy, moral, productive lives without such belief, and we can do it better.

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

God gives us the ugliness so we don't take the beautiful things in life for granted.

Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Life is what you make of it. Don't make excuses - make it happen.