Life Quotes - Page 595

There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.

The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.

Life is essentially a question of values.

A man who can be happy with the crumbs of light in the dark corridors of life infinitely deserves the brightest Sun!

Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree!

Nature is a good teacher; he who can read the nature well, he can learn sagacious things belong to life from it. Once you stepped in the nature, your philosophical education starts. A black vulture teaches you many things; a bear teaches you many things; a bird making its nest and a rosehip which resists being frozen, they teach you many things!

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If his only concern is for life, and he thinks "if I only have my dear life," he does not apply his full strength to using, i. e., enjoying, life.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth asking about a story — or a poem, or a piece of sculpture, or a new concert hall — is, Is it dead or alive?

All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

I am the life just passing through. I'm what remains and so are you.

Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.

Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

In this world you've a soul for a compass And a heart for a pair of wings There's a star on the far horizon Rising bright in an azure sky For the rest of the time that you're given Why walk when you can fly?

Live a life of prayer, giving glory to God and continually listening for His guidance.

There may be organic life out there, or maybe machines created by long-dead civilizations, but any signals, even if they are difficult to decode, would tell us that the concepts of logic and physics are not limited to the hardware in human skulls, and will transform our view of the universe.

If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.