Life Quotes - Page 411

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. Jack Balousek There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone to succeed.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

The things you have that money won't buy are the things that will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy.

You don't have to find out you're dying to start living. I want to be remembered as a kid who went down fighting, and didn't really lose.

Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.

Funk is the unending cycle of life.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.