Life Quotes - Page 352

If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.

Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.

To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.

Silently a flower blooms, In silence it falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the flower, the whole of the world is blooming. This is the talk of the flower, the truth of the blossom; The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

Kindness is the highest form of intelligence.

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.

The secret of a happy life is to delight in duty. When duty becomes delight, then burdens become blessings

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over.

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.

Reality is negotiable.