Life Quotes - Page 393

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.

When love is at its best, one loves So much that he cannot forget.

Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot deny the primal laws of nature, a distorted morality had to be developed, which spreads hypocritical appearances over hidden actions. This has brought to a head all those outward forms of modern life, whose vacuousness and corruption are now beginning to disgust us.

Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.

At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.

Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.

Happiness is reverence for all life.

Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Oh, I believe that there is no away; that no love, no life, goes ever from us; it goes as He went, that it may come again, deeper and closer and surer, and be with us always, even to the end of the world.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting.

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

I hope you live a life you're proud of...

If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.