Life Quotes - Page 434

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.

If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process, they have grown old together. We can sense the enormous comfort, the shared quality of ease between these people. It is beautiful, and very rare. Without this quality of openness and vulnerability, partners don't really know each other; they are one image living with another image.

What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments and obligations and responsibilities that are given habitually and lovingly are the blessings that win and preserve the heart and bring comfort to one's self as we as to others. This is the ministry of service performed by every useful life.

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.

Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. . . . Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out.

You can be happy where you are.

Don't make excuses, don't blame the past. The rest of your life can be the best of your life!