Life Quotes - Page 474

What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

The best path through life is the highway.

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.

However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read

As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.

The greatest honor that has come to me, and that can ever come to me in my life, is to be Grand Master of Masons in Missouri.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.... To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.

She's afraid that if she leaves, she'll become the life of the party.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

Always examine the dice.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

You can't rule out deflation just because you've never seen it in your lifetime.

We need the whole song, all the verses and the choruses to serve us as our own story unfolds because- trust me- life is hard, but God is good.

Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

I live for those who love me, Whose hearts are kind and true; For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit too; For all human ties that bind me, For the task by God assigned me, For the bright hopes yet to find me, And the good that I can do.