Life Quotes - Page 348

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.

For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

You can't just wish for a better life, you must go out there and create it.

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

Life is like a Ferrari, it goes too fast. But that's ok, because you can't afford it anyway.

A hairstyle's not a lifestyle.

If you want to get somewhere in this life, learn to draw beautiful women.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

Learning is a gift, even if pain is the teacher

And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.

The function of man is to live, not to exist.

My life is a vast inconsequential epic.

In order to live a life of holiness, we must first receive new life from God - we must be born from above.

There is no royal road to any learning, no matter what it is. There is no royal road to any righteous living, no matter who you are or what you are. There is no royal road to anything that is worthwhile. Nothing that is deserving of earning or of cherishing comes except through hard work. I care not how much of a genius you may be, the rule will still hold.

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

We are a landscape of all we have seen.

Good people drink good beer.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.