Life Quotes - Page 498

Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.

The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you'll see there's a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.

Failure is relative. Life is adventure. Everything has beauty.

He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

The only way to live free, the only way to live your life as an offering of love, is to feel everything fully and live open.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life

Brigid: I haven't lived a good life - I've been bad, worse than you could know. Spade: That's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere.

The only place I've found peace in my life is in church. I owe my life to God.

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life.

America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with significant work and other activities that contribute to the welfare of the community.

Time flows away like the water in the river.

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. To cite calculus, we are the area under the curve.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

Love me little, love me long.