Life Quotes - Page 316

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, this you will become.

With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future.

If you care for people around you, you must make yourself into a person they enjoy being with.

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.

If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

Life is one long jubilee.

There's so much more to life than what you're feeling now

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self.

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?

Above all, try something

Is there intelligent life on Earth?

I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach the fullest development. Then, and before physical deterioration obtrudes, I shall go on some last wilderness trip to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.