Life Quotes - Page 513

Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity -namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with. After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

The best things in life are often the ones hardest to get. Yet they are also the ones that are the easiest to find, usually right in front of your face.

It is absolutely imperative at the outset that you come to terms with this simple yet life-changing truth: God is for you. If you don't believe that, then you'll pray small timid prayers; if you do believe it, then you'll pray big audacious prayers.

Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient

I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.

But a hobby, like a habit, makes you forget about important things in life.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

Potential has a shelf life.

No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

By doubting we come at truth.

Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses.

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

It's a very short trip. While alive, live.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

Life is one indivisible whole.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.

I never thought life would be this sweet, It got me cheesing from cheek to cheek.

Every life is good. This [luxury] doesn't make life. It's a lifestyle. It's a style of life. Style is what you are, but everybody has life. And everybody's life should be good. Some of the happiest people in the world have nothing. Nothing. And they find happiness in being in the world. They wear the world with a smile.

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes