Life Quotes - Page 608

Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

The art of life is to live in the present moment

The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.

I don't believe you ever stop loving anyone you ever really loved. You have them there like money in the bank just because you loved them and held them in your arms or dreamed you did. You can forget a lot of things in life, but not that honey to end all honeys.

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego's will to prevail. To listen to the soul is to stop fighting with life-to stop fighting when things fall apart, when they don't go our way, when we get sick, when we are betrayed or mistreated or misunderstood. To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty, and to wait.

I find that God by any name can be reduced to this sense of the eternal Presence. It defines being, and I see it as a sphere of intense light that marks the point of my origin. It is the permanent part of me, of which I am very aware, and the point to which I will return at the conclusion of this life.

It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.

My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith.

My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.

Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

The pursuit of excellence is a continuous process through life. Enjoy the pursuit.

Be at peace and see a clear pattern and plan running through your lives. Nothing is by chance.

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.

Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Life is made up of compromises.

The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me