Life Quotes - Page 354

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality.

Life is a gift. Never take it for granted.

Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.

What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.

What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.

Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.

Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.

By consciously deciding how you will live the rest of your life, you can create a life that is extraordinary.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand.

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

You only live once, and I just don’t want to waste a minute of my life.

When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?'

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God's call without a devout prayer life. That is where God speaks. The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life is not to make you number one in the world's eyes, but to make him number one in your life. We must be willing to be outshone while shining for God. We hear very little about being smaller in our own self-estimate.

I've been loving music all my life.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Never assume that you're stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.