Life Quotes - Page 428

This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

Don't forget: one of the saddest things in life is wasted talent.

If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end, the more tempting the minute.

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

Do you want a successful career or a close relationship with your family? Both! Do you want a focus on business or have fun and play? Both! Do you want money or meaning in your life? Both! Do you want to earn a fortune or do the work you love? Both! Poor people always choose one, rich people choose both.

Did you know that there are no straight lines in the universe? Life doesn't travel in perfectly straight lines. It moves more like a winding river. More often than not, you can only see to the next bend, and only when you reach that next turn can you see more.

I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.

Success is... living a full and balanced life in partnership with others to create a joyful feeling of love, contribution, appreciation and abundance, despite how our endeavors may turn out.

My love lives outside my window Clouds burst to give water So her love can grow My love smiles to me each morning Says she'll never leave me And I know it's so

I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would rather let the Master Storyteller do the writing.

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.

If you do not change, you can become extinct !

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.