Life Quotes - Page 653

Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at Princeton and a relationship with Blaine - "You are the absolute love of my life," he'd written in her last birthday card - and yet there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.

Do not make too much haste on one's road.

When I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror, watching myself solemnly brush my teeth. I tried to feel something like excitement but came up only with a morose unease. Every now and then I could see myself-truly see myself-and a sentence would come to me, thundering like a god into my head, and as I saw myself then in front of that tarnished mirror what came was 'the woman with the hole in her heart'. That was me.

Acceptance is the act of embracing what life presents to you with a good attitude.

My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions.

The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

Be friends with everybody. When you have friends you will know there is somebody who will stand by you. You know the old saying, that if you have a single enemy you will find him everywhere. It doesn't pay to make enemies. Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to every one about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.

It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

When you realize you're alive, you can live life!

If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk, because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products.

I gave life, and that is beautiful.

Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?

Everyday is a new beginning and a chance to blow it.

My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.

I grew to understand or really grasp a sense of what the power of being humble is - that becomes a practice. Otherwise you'll be crushed by your fear of being humiliated. It'll control you the rest of your life. I really understood that. I haven't mastered it, I haven't come close to it.

The reason you have descended into physical life is to unleash the power of your soul upon Earth.

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.