Life Quotes - Page 582

It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure the continuities of life are astonishingly complex, and cannot take place in islands of semiwilderness like the national parks.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.

We should scrub all of our federal regulations to find responsible ways to make life easier to small businesses, i want to be a small business president.

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.

Who but knows How it goes! Life's a last year's Nightingale, Love's a last year's rose.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine.

The adventure of life is to learn.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.

We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.

Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens.

A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right.

Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of judgment. But amateur standards, the standards of love, are always straining upward toward the humble and the best. They enlarge the ground of judgment. The context of love is the world.

It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy - forcefully, painfully, lastingly. . . . Plans have been disrupted, deals have been lost, companies have fallen, because of idle gossip or malicious slander. Reputations have been sullied, careers have been ruined, lives have been devastated, because of cruel lies or vicious rumors. . . . Your words have such power to do good or evil that they must be chosen carefully, wisely, and well.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

He who seeks possessions for himself will never find them-until he begins to give of the abundance of possessions which he already has.

Life is too precious to be left to chance