Life Quotes - Page 465

People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.

The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.

Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life.

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.

Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen. Then what will be the quality? Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated, centered, loving, flowing, one walks. And the walking is sauntering. Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated - not sitting for anything in particular, just enjoying how beautiful just sitting doing nothing is, how relaxing, how restful.

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

Just keep going - no feeling is final.

From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations.

God seeks comrades and claims love, The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.

It is that the Spirit is the outbreathing of God, His inmost life going forth in a personal form to quicken. When we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive the inmost life of God Himself to dwell in a personal way in us. When we really grasp this thought, it is overwhelming in its solemnity. Just stop and think what it means to have the inmost life of that infinite and eternal Being whom we call God, dwelling in a personal way in you. How solemn and how awful and yet unspeakably glorious life becomes when we realize this.

Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make.

It matters not how long you live, but how well.

People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it.

Life is just a journey.

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.

Nature expresses a design of love and truth.

A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

Whatever you do, do it well.