On Life Quotes

And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.

It's a lifestyle, it's something you do the rest of your life," LaLanne said. "How long are you going to keep breathing? How long do you keep eating? You just do it.

Control your destiny or somebody will.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.

No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere.

No two individuals are ever the same. You cannot equate people. You can only create equal opportunity.

Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.

If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.

In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective.

Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless.

Devotion means your involvement with life is no more conditional.

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

Karma means ultimate responsibility. You even take responsibility for your genetics.

When you are no more identified with your physicality, you become available to Grace.

Trees are the source of your very breath - cut and you shall curtail life itself.

The cosmos is a complex amalgamation of sounds. One of the key sounds through which you can experience the cosmic nature of creation is Shambho.

A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch.

As long as you are a part of the physical process of the existence, there is nothing that does not change.

Ganapati, the one with the human body and the head of a Gana, became a tremendous possibility.

Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction.

For a man not to achieve the things he has an opportunity to do is such a waste of life.

Today, I would describe a preistess as a woman who lives in two worlds at once, who perceives life on earth against a backdrop of a vast, timeless, reality.

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

Stick with the people who love you and don’t spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

It is impossible to overstate the need for prayer in the fabric of family life.

Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.

Love is the spirit of life, and makes all things live.

Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?

O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!

Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.

You might not think it now, but if you're one of God's children, you're going to figure it out by the end of your life God is good.

I love to make people laugh and love to make people smile. The first time I performed and heard the applause, that was the sound that I wanted to hear for the rest of my life.

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

I think there are times in life where you're automatically drawn to somebody and it's weird - you freak out a bit.

Getting sober was the single bravest thing I've ever done and will ever do in my life.

Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don't change.