Life Quotes - Page 406

Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how to live a good life. This guidance emerges spontaneously from the interactions of human beings living in societies and thinking together about how best to get along. It doesn't require a god or sacred text.

The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker.

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

The world is changing and so is fashion.

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

"You are what you eat." Nothing else. Never. If you are nourished with cow's milk and later with herbs, you'll become someone whose whole life is good only for being exploited by others.

I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.

For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.

A good motto to live by: "Always try not to get killed.

You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.

There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

Life is real only then, when "I am".

Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

The world is a grindstone and life is your nose