Life Quotes - Page 407

It is as much our duty to live in the beauty of the presence of God on some mount of transfiguration until we become white with Christ as it is for us to go down where the needy people grope and grovel, and groan and lift them to new life.

That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.

An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.

No one can bar me from joyfully proceeding on what the great masters have left us; after all, to rediscover everything again, should be understood to be unfounded. But one should however proceed on merit, and not simply repeat wat was. All genius, sincere, deserves his place, even though maybe later in life.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

Enough is abundance to the wise.

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

I'm filthy stinking rich - well, two out of three ain't bad.

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life.

I detect more good than evil in humanity. Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world grows old.

I've been a leader practically my whole life. I don't know what it is to follow.

In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.

The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.

Living life from a whole different angle. Only see the road through the wings of an angel.

If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.