Life Quotes - Page 648

Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

Life is a series of delicious moments.

Let go of the oars... Everything you want is downstream.

Relationships are forever. They are eternal. Not just permanent in this lifetime. Once you establish a relationship, it is an eternal relationship.

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

The mind of man is continuously unfolding into a greater recognition of its real plan in the creative order of the Universe.

How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

I believe that one can and must hope for a sane society that furthers man's capacity to love his fellow men, to work and create, to develop his reason and his objectivity of a sense of himself that is based on the experience of his productive energy. I believe that one can and must hope for the collective regaining of a mental health that is characterized by the capacity to love and to create.

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

You cannot afford to live in potential for the rest of your life; at some point, you have to unleash the potential and make your move(ment).

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing but weeds, there is no reason for shutting your eyes and seeing nothing, instead of finding what beauty you may in the weeds. To put it cynically, life is too short to waste it in drawing blanks. Therefore, it is up to you to find as many pictures to put on your blank pages as possible.

Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

The bath soothes the nerves. It promotes general perspiration, quickens the circulation, overcomes obstruction in the system, and acts beneficially on the kidneys and the urinary organs. Bathing helps the bowels, stomach, and liver, giving energy and new life to each. It also promotes digestion and instead of the system being weakened, it is strengthened...and a more easy and regular flow of the blood through all the blood vessels is obtained.