Life Quotes - Page 606

Most people consider themselves above the gritty and relentless details of life that allow the creation of great wealth. They leave it to the experts. But in general you join the one percent of the one percent not by leaving it to the experts but by creating new expertise, not by knowing what the experts know but by learning what they think is beneath them.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

Life is uncertain; death is certain.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

No relationships should be taken for granted. They are what life is all about, the whole point. How we cultivate our relationships is often the greatest determinant of the type of life we get to live.

The healing power of music is vast. Music therapy is in its infancy in Western psychology. If we knew more, we'd be able to do amazing things, and maybe even make permanent changes in the brain's mysterious workings. With a simple song and four chords, you might be able to do something useful, even life-changing. With all the songs you know, you might be a virtual, veritable medicine chest for the right person.

Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.

Life is a disease.

Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way.

In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us.

Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being.

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.