About Life Quotes
The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.
This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.
If we cut speed and relax with what’s going on in our life right now, kindness and patience will naturally come about.
I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.
Life is about chasing after the things you think are truly worth it, even if they don't happen, I'd rather have nothing but know I didn't settle for something I didn't want!
The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
I discovered that in life, one has got to serve to be observed, if one serve not, one will probably be reserved. Don't wisdom teach this?
My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.
Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.
In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.
Inspiration is the gift of those who have experienced life at its most defined moments.
Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.
I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.
A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life?
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough.
I'm especially interested in relationships since that is a part of life that causes enormous pain for many people.
To grow, change, love, adapt, experience. We have to be open minded. This is the life and that's the way it should be lived.
Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life.
Don't be dependent on anyone else. I want to go everywhere, look at, and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.
The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.
In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.
Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time.
A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.
If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.
Spiritual destiny is manifested in the lives of those who stand out from the masses and actually do something, who live a creative life for the benefit of others.
I don't feel like I can change the world. I don't even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.
Thanks to my father, I didn't have to face the tough side of life. Probably that's why I always chose love over money.
The greatest gift you will ever have is your life, and the second greatest gift-which you give yourself-is courage to live it to the fullest. Time goes by quickly, and you cannot take it for granted.
Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom.
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.
Finding inner success is the best, easiest and infact the only way to achieve and enjoy everything else in life.
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
