Life Quotes - Page 10

Life gives us a flair of awareness in the breeze of our daily journey and offers a free reign to explore what we are, to experience what we are not and to find out what we may become: a free ride until everything melts down into the indistinct and indefinite, while walking up to the ultimate gate of non-existence. ("Living on probation")

Life is easier when you don't carry baggage from the past.

People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without question - as grace and beauty; but have overlooked my work to substitute a vaster beauty, touching all objects and beings, not excluding the most despised - and because of that, all the more exhilarating.... I would like people to look at my work as an enterprise for the rehabilitation of scorned values, and, in any case, make no mistake, a work of ardent celebration.... I am convinced that any table can be for each of us a landscape as inexhaustible as the whole Andes range... I am struck by the high value, for a man, of a simple permanent fact, like the miserable vista on which the window of his room opens daily, that comes, with the passing of time, to have an important role in his life. I often think that the highest destination at which a work of art can aim is to take on that function in someone's life.

It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

Many lies lie between one truth.

I think he won a tiny piece of my heart that day. If he didn't have the whole damn thing before then, he certainly had part of it now.

You must build your tomorrow today through visions

Your life is important. Honor it. Fight for your highest possibilities.

Follow your dreams with all of your mind. Chase your dreams with all of your heart. Accomplish your dreams with all of your soul.

Death has a life which kills everybody's life

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

In this day and age we care more about our pride than our lives.

Determine when you are most effective and energized, then plan your tasks within that time.

When you want to talk about honor, they want to talk about money. When you want to talk about money, they want to talk about gentility. They either get the notion of honor or they don't. And if they don't, you probably shouldn't be fucking with them.

If your greatest wish is to be happy, you are clever; if it is to make others happy, you are virtuous; but if it is to make yourself and others happy, you are wise.

One of the greatest gifts of life is having a chance to live as long as there are people on earth.

As believers, we each have a different essence of existence

Behaviours and habits are therefore the end result of the entire value chain and cannot be changed in a sustainable manner by scratching the surface - you have to dig deeper. This is why jail time, threats and sanctions without appropriate rehabilitation programs will not change a person unless they embark on a personal journey/program to initiate the process of change from the inner core – how the programs in their brain are wired to influence their beliefs.

Worthy or not, you will receive your destiny. Awake or not you will notice.

Life shows us all colours, some bright and some shades of grey,Some accept with a smile, while some frown in every wayThoughts and memories never end but life does one day.Whole age passes by in wait of that old time to return,But those old days once gone, will never come back again,Rather we can just cherish them in the memories that burn,In the back of our mind and make us remember,How we used to be so crazy,In those old days…

Imagination is more important than knowledge”, with due respect to Mr. Einstein, I beg to differ! “Imagination is not possible without knowledge.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.

You cannot even touch my soul. So I have emerged stronger, Kinder, perceptive, forgiving To embrace you with all the humility.

The moon is very charming, alluring, attracting and magical, not because of its beauty, but because of its illusion and reflection of change.

The energy everything is made of is conscious. It's alive.

The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one.

When carefully examined… I recognize that the Greatest things that have ever occurred in my Life could not have happened if not built upon ruins of the most difficult things that had occurred in my life. And in this recognition I find myself fully Grateful for the totality of my existence.

One Smile makes two Smiles and two makes many Smiles so keep Smiling :) :).

I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ‘[intelligent] design.’ If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!

Isn’t reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with?

Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.

She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it in front of her, like the old days, all set to do its little magic.

We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.

Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.

Silence is only awkward if one cannot feel a connection with the other.

They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.

If we’re missing life it’s probably because we’re expecting it to reveal itself to us, rather than realizing that life is revealed by us looking for it.

Sometimes, he gets on my nerves;At other times, I burn the ladder.

Your calling is buried in your background and life experience

The only way to saturate the earth with your products like Steve Jobs is to invest your time doing what you were born to do.

The miracle of everyday living is the blessed breath of life.

For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. ("Another empty room")

However difficult death is for us to accept, we must... how would we learn to appreciate each moment if it were not precious? If life were forever?

The hidden time is an eternity that runs through every moment. It is all-time. The hidden time is a thread, and moments are the beads on the thread.

How strange the feelings when it was not your name anymore that appeared as that person's favorite.

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

When there is no personal responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government.

One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

When we are courageous enough to begin exploring the ‘Why’s” and the ‘Who’s' of life, the ‘How’s’ and ‘What’s’ of life start to come into focus as well. "

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

It's good to be mad for someone, but that's great if you are made for same one.

Making a decision based on fear is like painting a self-portrait of someone else.

When you're there for others, you're ahead of everyone.

Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.

Behaviour comes from a life of indoctrination.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

If you have the power to put a smile on one person’s face, you have the power to change the world.

Whenever I love you, I find myself more loving.