Life Quotes - Page 565

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

If the shoe fits you're lucky.

To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.

Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

They don't find peace. It's pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes you apart and reassembles you. You are a Frankenstein of circumstance, and the parts never fit back quite right and the life you live is a stolen one. You don't deserve to walk among the living, and you know it.

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.

There's no difference between my persona on Twitter and Instagram and in real life.

Guilt didn't put any butter on the bread of life.