Life Quotes - Page 493

If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.

Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don’t know who you are or what your name is or where you’re from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter’s real and you’re not.

Some people have lives; some people have music.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Always make the other person feel important.

Life is now in session. Are you present?

If you cannot get along with yourself, you'll never be able to get along with other people.

Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the way will be determined by it.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

When you know what you want and you want it badly enough, you will find the ways to get it.

I hear what many of you are saying: We don’t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the time it took you to read this post, your life just got a minute shorter. That is precisely why we read (and why some of us write): because life is short and finite, we want more, and literature is the distillation of all those lives we will not lead.

I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it

Life is about making mistakes. Death is about wishing you made more.

In business, your positive thoughts and lifestyle choices lead to your personal success and your career success.

Do it from the heart or not at all.

I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.

When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest.

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

A woman who sets her rights, the supposed right to privacy or right over her own body, above the life of another human being is saying that a woman's rights are superior to human rights. She has put herself above the human race, she has made herself the executor over life and death. Is that a woman's right?

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.