Life Quotes - Page 542

Every basic act like eating and copulating becomes magical when you do it consciously.

The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence.

Intelligence is of paramount importance to live life sensibly, because without intelligence, there is no clarity. And Clarity is intelligence everyone is capable of.

Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away.

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.

I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it. I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.

The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Real life seems to have no plots.

The best life is that which makes the best of life.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

You have to know yourself and know what you can carry. If you're not comfortable, no matter how well dressed you are, you're not going to look right. I'd rather be happy and feel comfy.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Nobody hopped into a wardrobe to find Narnia; they hopped in, thinking it was just a wardrobe. They didn't climb up the Faraway Tree, knowing it was a Faraway Tree; they thought it was just a really big tree. Harry Potter thought he was a normal boy; Mary Poppins was supposed to be a regular nanny. It's the first and only rule. Magic comes when you're not looking for it

Life is not fair and people are not equal.

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

Positive thinking is no longer for drifters, dreamers and the perpetually naive. People who think positively see more opportunities, perform better, take more often correct and sound decisions, have more self-confidence, maintain better relations and have more trust placed in them

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization

I learned it by doing it, and I was scared to death.