Life Quotes - Page 426

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.

I like to work really hard and then earn the good life. I actually enjoy it. If you're eating caviar all the time, it doesn't taste good anymore.

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

Let your life be your argument.

The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of view? It's using up air; it's using up energy. It's really not doing anything except being ornamental. And yet here's this whole vegetable world, cactus plants, trees, roses, tulips, and edible vegetables, like cabbages, celery, lettuce - they're all doing this dance.

I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.

Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: The word "sacred" means that a heart which has not disengaged itself from the sphere of the soul and the sphere of created beings is forbidden to penetrate into this place. . . . "Wherever you are, turn your face" [toward the sacred Mosque] means, "Wherever you are, in the accomplishment of works of worship or in the ordinary acts of life, contemplate Him - in what you eat, in what you drink, in him or her whom you marry, always knowing that He is at once the Contemplator and the Contemplated. . . ."

There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.

Life is once so do right neglect wrongs.

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.

If you want to have a good life you have to have some constructive outlet for your feelings.

Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.