Life Quotes - Page 345

When you are passionate about life, it keeps you young. Sometimes I wake up at 4:00 am just to see how my roses look.

You are worthy of love and respect. You are beautiful, gifted, and intelligent. Don't let the storm make you forget it.

Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.

I am just one of many many thousands of midwives, who are devoted to saving lives gently.

You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

[On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.

I believe that our society's "mistake-phobia" is crippling, a problem that begins in most elementary schools, where we learn to learn what we are taught rather than to form our own goals and to figure out how to achieve them. We are fed with facts and tested and those who make the fewest mistakes are considered to be the smart ones, so we learn that it is embarrassing to not know and to make mistakes. Our education system spends virtually no time on how to learn from mistakes, yet this is critical to real learning.

The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything.

The life that goes out in love to all life is the life that is full, and rich, and continually expanding in beauty and in power.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

A lasting solution, the possibility to begin a new life, is the only dignified solution for the refugee himself.

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.

Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs.

Love's very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.

Each person's life is like a mandala - a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life ... everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.

Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occurred. But none of that is important: they did occur, and so be it. From there onward we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild

Every human being has a personal legend to be fulfilled, and this is our reason for being in the world. This personal legend manifests itself in our enthusiasm for the task.