Life Quotes - Page 519

In soft regions are born soft men.

What if I told you that I put my whole life into Tintin?

Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints.

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

We are the curators of life on earth. We hold it in the palm of our hand.

Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation.

I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it.

In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.

Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

It's not your job to get people to like you, it's your job to like people.

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

How slow life is, how violent hope is.

Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure Les jours s'en vont je demeure

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.

As you walk the road of life, be careful of your friends. They can make you or break you.