The Life Quotes
Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.
On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.
I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.
In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.
You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.
We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
There is a wellspring of life within you where you can go for cleansing and transformation.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt.
Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.
No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.
He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.
Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.
A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.
Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.
All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.
A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.