Life Quotes - Page 552

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

It's better to bet on this life than on the next.

On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.

Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.

Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!

My life is a life of accepting what the universe has offered me... I don't fight the universe.

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness. Your hands are capable, but they must be used and for the right things to reap the rewards you are capable of attaining. The choice is yours.

Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.

If you will be hard on yourself, life will be easy on you. But if you insist upon being easy on yourself, life is going to be very hard on you.

Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!

Life should be fun not dumb

Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achieve­ments. These alone count in life.

The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.