The Life Quotes
When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion.
I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.
The teacher's life is painfull and therefore would be pityed: it wrastles with unthankfulnesse above all measure...Our calling creepes low and hath pain for companion.
The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.
Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.
In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.
I'm going to say hello to two friends who I've shut out of my life for the past 10 weeks while I trained the hardest I've ever done for a fight. So welcome back Mr Guinness and Mr Dom Perignon.
It takes six months to get into shape and two weeks to get out of shape. Once you know this you can stop being angry about other things in life and only be angry about this.
I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.
Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.
When I die, nobody cry at my funeral, in fact let's all have a party; I've lived the life of ten men. I lived all my dreams and more.
I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.
At the end of the day, Mother Nature has only one question for us: 'What life did you nurture today?
Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.
What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.
Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.
I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.
The power for happiness, for good, for everything we need of life is within each one of us. The power is there - unlimited power.
It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
Meditation is existence. When we meditate, all we are simply doing is letting go and allowing ourselves to dissolve back into that which we really are. We are merging with life and light.
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?
Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.
Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.
The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.
We normally consider stability to be the constant in life and accidents to be the exception, but it's exactly the opposite. In reality, the accident is the rule and stability is the exception.
We only have one life to live. Since everybody has the potential to be successful, I hope we'll all take an action and actually live it.
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
What will happen in your life if you accept the invitation to stillness cannot be known ... what can be known is you will have a larger capacity to truly meet whatever appears.
