Life Quotes - Page 645

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.

Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.

Analysis kills spontaneity.

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

This is what I've learned, in my life: Headbanging is crucial. Growing up is hard to do. There's nothing wrong with wearing a dress.

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it.

I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally, success in that field is measured by batting averages, number of home runs and RBIs, fielding averages, ERAs and other statistics. Fame, notoriety and the bright lights fade quickly. To me, true success in life would be to develop both physically and spiritually to our fullest and to endure to the end!

My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths.

Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There's no time for pettiness.

How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.

Never underestimate the power of gaining a new perspective by simply changing your immediate environment. Going for a walk, reading a book, or talking to a friend can provide you with life-changing insights that you not otherwise attain while remaining stagnant.

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

Take care of your reputation. It's your most valuable asset.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.