Life Quotes - Page 438

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

There's nothing interesting about looking perfect—you lose the point. You want what you're wearing to say something about you, about who you are.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted

We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point.

In materiality we find some advance faster, some grow stronger, some become weaklings. Until there is redemption through the acceptance of the law (or love of God, as manifested through the Channel or the Way), there can be little or no development in a material or spiritual plane. But all must pass under the rod, even as He-who entered into materiality.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

Wish you would learn to love people and use things and not the other way around

Think! You can think any think that you wish.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for world order. Topocosm means "the world order of a particular place." The topocosm is the entire complex of any given locality conceived as a living organism, not just the human community but the total community - the plants, animals and soils of the place. The topocosm is not only the actual and present living community but also that continuous entity of which the present community is but the current manifestation.

I'm on this road for the rest of my life.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.

It isn't love when another person cannot give you the space to live your own life.

I loved going to films, but as far as a movie buff, when I came into the movies at 16, life changed a little bit for me, from an onlooker to a person that lived within the industry. So now I would call myself a different sort of fan.