Life Quotes - Page 481

Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it.

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.

Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

The truest experience of life is when we dream awake.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.

No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Life is hard but so very beautiful

My husband taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.

Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.

The THINGS that COUNT most IN LIFE ARE the THINGS that CAN'T BE COUNTED.

You don't have to find out you're dying to start living.

Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.

One experienced minute sometimes teaches us more than a lifetime.

My life and my whole eternity belongs to God. All this stuff is temporary. Money, fame, successtemporary. Even life is temporary. Jesusthat's eternal.

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.