Life Quotes - Page 615

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.

Mortality is the great rescuer, it finally takes you out of everything, and that makes life good.Read Carl Jung. It makes life richer because this is it; none of us know where we go and this is the fun of it.

For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.

An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading -- that is a good life.

this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only exchange one set of restrictions for another. The second set, however, is self-chosen, and therefore easier to accept.

Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions.

Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.

The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

... because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too -- a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing.

Remember, whatever you focus upon, increases...When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don't have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don't have-and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose...But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

We begin to forgive by choosing to forgive . . . by deciding, not by feeling. Our feelings don't lead us to forgive. Most times, our feelings lead us the other way. That's why a person has to decide to forgive first. Our feelings always follow along behind our decisions.

If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

I love my life! Even if I don't get what I want, when I want it, doesn't mean the world is against me, it just means God has other plans.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.