Life Quotes - Page 611

Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13 years on the table. So my quest is -- how do we get those extra 13 years? And how do we make those extra 13 years good years?

Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.

I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and undernourished on the bread of life.

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that at one time half of all the beds in our hospitals were reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who had collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives — if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: “Have no anxiety about the morrow”; or the words of Sir William Osler: "Live in day-tight compartments."

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.

Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.

Life is but a series of memories you make.

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

The Master said, A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes entails 5 times of shortage; and even learning may incidentally lead to high pay. But a gentleman's anxieties concern the progress of the Way; he has no anxiety concerning poverty.

Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation.

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

Im having an amazing life and it isnt over yet.

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.

In this life, anything can happen - and what can help bring it to pass is Hope

You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Life is very fragile and you never know when it is over. Only one instance and then it might be too late to accept Gods offer for forgiveness.

When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't going blehblehbleh all the time. Everything quiets down, and the only thing going on is pure flow. It's jus time and the movement and the motion.That's what love--just being a barbarian, running through the woods.

Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'.

When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk

If it doesn't matter in five years, it doesn't matter.