Life Quotes - Page 359

Every human being is called to solidarity in a world battling between life and death

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death. By acceptance of all aspects of life, good & bad, right & wrong, yours & mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a dance, 'the dance of life,' metamorphosis.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you'd rather not go.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

History is one damn thing after another.

I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

The hardest things in life are done the least but provide the most.

Life is what you make it.

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Rule Number One is this: If you’re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if you’re defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to the tickles, the nudges, the clues—boom! Sledgehammer.