Life Quotes - Page 372

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

In the end, this is your journey, live the life you imagined

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .

When you expect good, it's available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life.

But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.

Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

My life is my argument.

My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

Two Things that Define SUCCESS In LIFE: - The Way You Manage when You Have Nothing & Way You Behave when You Have Everything