Life Quotes - Page 349

The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.

We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment's life - that's me.

The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.

Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty.

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.

You can spend your whole life trying to be popular, but at the end of the day, the size of the crowd at your funeral will be largely dictated by the weather.

The only thing constant in life is change

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

I like to control my own personal life.

Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis. He is not a lover who does not love for ever.

Your life is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts.

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often.

Whatever you experience in your life is really but the outpicturing of your own thoughts and beliefs. Now, you can change these thoughts and beliefs, and then the outer picture must change too. The outer picture cannot change until you change your thought.

It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.