Life Quotes - Page 421

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

I was madly in love with life.

It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.

There are certain things in life that have limits, but you don't unless you impose limits on yourself.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.

It's already a million Muslims! As long as they obey the law and respect the constitution, nobody has anything to fear. They can stay and they have the same rights and the opportunity for a fantastic life in Holland.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

Each day when you wake up, say: "What miracles would you have me perform today?" Then listen.

This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.