Life Quotes - Page 425

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?

Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural things. It is more exciting to stand still than to dance. Silence is more eloquent than speech. Water is more stimulating than wine. Fresh air is more intoxicating than cigarette smoke. Sunlight is more subtle than electric light. The scent of grass is more luxurious than the most expensive perfume. The slow, simple observations of the peasant are more wise than the most sparkling epigrams of the latest wit.

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

The problem with our existence is that our experiences contain more hate than love.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

To lose our connection with the body is to become spiritually homeless. Without an anchor we float aimlessly, battered by the winds and waves of life

Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead; that is where your future lies. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.

SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.