Life Quotes - Page 630

There are two kinds of world: the one we dream about and the real one.

The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

If we accept all that is wrong about us - and despite it, believe that we are deserving of a happy life - then we will have thrown open an immense window that will allow love to enter.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

A life without a cause is a life without effect.

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to emote over us, to re-create us in their history-based understanding, and dismiss our present lives as archaic and irrelevant to the times.

There's more to life than movies.

In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things are bad". It is true: at this time of year, when days are short and dark, and one hardly dares to open the newspapers, I turn, not vainly either, to the great creators of the past for distraction, solace and help.

In the family, life is brought not only to our doorstep, but into our kitchens, bedrooms, and dens. In the family, life is happening all around us, and it begs to be questioned, evaluated, interpreted, and discussed. There is no more consistent, pregnant, dynamic forum for instruction about life than the family, because that is exactly what God designed the family to be, a learning community.

Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.

But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

The activities of the liberated soul transcend the pairs of opposites.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?

The things you need in life are those that will help you to fulfill your dominant purpose. Things you may want but not need may lead you aside from that purpose. It is only by making everything serve your main objective that success is attained.

We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.

In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.

And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.