Life Quotes - Page 492

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.

Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.

Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."

Life is about holding on and letting go.

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

There is no better way to return the matter of taxation to full public discusssion than to repeal the withholding taxes on wages and salaries. Only when the American people are confronted with the enormous excesses of government in a personal and direct way - by an annual bill for services rendered - will they be able to make an informed judgment about which services they want and which ones they can do without.

He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame.

People readily believe what they want to believe.

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

Anyone must remember that dad left when I was 3 years old. Mom and I lived out of the limelight. We lived a totally different life.

Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.

Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

The eternal spring is hidden in this living bread for our life's sake, although it is night. It is here calling out to creatures; and they satisfy their thirst, although in darkness, because it is night. This living spring that I long for, I see in this bread of life, although it is night.

Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.

Life is a long headache in a noisy street.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot; Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit, Where long ago a giant battle was; And, from the turf, a lullaby doth pass In every place where infant Orpheus slept. Feel we these things? - that moment have we stept Into a sort of oneness, and our state Is like a floating spirit's. But there are Richer entanglements, enthralments far More self-destroying, leading, by degrees, To the chief intensity: the crown of these Is made of love and friendship, and sits high Upon the forehead of humanity.

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.