Life Quotes - Page 454

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding.

When life gives you lemons, you exchange them at the store for something more edible.

One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.

Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want.

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine per cent of our living substance were cooked in the deep interiors of earlier generations of dying stars. Gathered up from the ends of the universe, over billions of years, eventually they came to form, in part, the substance of our sun, its planets, and ourselves. Three billion years ago, life arose upon the earth. It is the only life in the solar system.

The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a circle of disturbance we produce in the harmonies of nature when we throw the smallest pebble into the ocean of organic life.

What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.

If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

When one begins to purposefully perform acts of kindness, the spirit changes and soon doing good deeds becomes a focal point for our life; doing good begins to be the same as feeling good. The periods of emptiness when we search for the "meaning of it all" begin to fill with acts of kindness.

The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!

The basic pattern of life is a network. Whenever you see life, you see networks. The whole planet, what we can term 'Gaia' is a network of processes involving feedback tubes. Humans are part of the larger whole, Gaia.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

Pleasure is the most real good in this life.

The trick in life is to find out where you belong. Once you find out where you belong, you will be happy there.

America will never resist abortion until America sees abortion... The pro-life movement is not primarily a response to Roe vs Wade. It is a response to Jesus Christ.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

A busy life is a wasted life.