On Life Quotes
We can endure almost anything if we are centered, if we have some focus in our life. You can endure if you have an anchor.
It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions.
The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I've seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we're here to express love.
I've got a lot of opportunities, a lot of love in my life, a lot of things going for me. Still, it's not complete. I know this is not the whole thing. There's much more.
I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.
When the afterburner lights, I haven't got 5,000 horsepower. I've got 10,000 horsepower, and possibly the biggest accident you've ever seen in your life.
My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close Is scattered on the ground - to die.
Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.
The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.
It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.
The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.
A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.
Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.
Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?
To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?
Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.
The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15
A life that is planned is a closed life, my friend. It can be endured but it cannot be lived.
It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.
Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.
In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.
My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.
Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.
He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.
The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
