Life Quotations | Page 3

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

May you live all the days of your life.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...

Our true nationality is mankind.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.