Life Quotes - Page 501

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Circumstances do not push or pull. They are daily lessons to be studied and gleaned for new knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge and wisdom that is applied will bring about a brighter tomorrow. A person who is depressed is spending too much time thinking about the way things are now and not enough time thinking about how he wants things to be.

Every good thing that has happened in your life happened because something changed.

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).

Dreams are necessary to life.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.

What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.

The constant happiness is curiosity.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

I thought of that while riding my bicycle.

There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.

Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.