Life Quotes - Page 341

Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation.

The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can actually choose the direction of our thoughts instead of just letting them run along the grooves of conditioned thinking, we become the masters of our own lives.

A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

This aint the life that I'm used to, reintroduced to people I've been introduced to.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.

Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.

The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.

The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.