Life Quotes - Page 494

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.

If you don't invest your life in what you really care for, your life will be wasted. You will not fly - you will just drag yourself through life.

Responsibility means being able to respond to whatever situation you may face in your life.

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

. . . and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from your appendages like the pungent vapors of whales - often it appears that in this life of experience and accommodation we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. But Sissy . . . hold on!

There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.

I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.

You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.

We think about all of our tomorrows, but we don't know how many there are, so let's start making the most of our Todays!

There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life.... A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.

Art should become as one with its surroundings.

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally

A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves

Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

One is never too old for romance.

The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.

You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind.

Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!

There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light, And every kind of love makes a glory in the night. There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives it rest, But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.

Anger is inside you, revealed by an outside source.