Life Is Quotes - Page 20

• The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

  Norman Douglas

  Life, Business, Enjoy

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• Life is replete with comedy, drama, horror, suspense, tragedy, romance, mystery, fantasy and a good dose of fiction. While at times the plot may seem to be lacking, the special effects alone are well worth the price of admission.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Drama, Romance

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• But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

  Carl Jung

  Heart, Desire, Meaning Of Life

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• Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.

  Cat Power

  Life Is Hard, Hard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This life is just your schooling for what you have to do when you graduate.

  David Berg

  Graduates, This Life, Heavenly

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• The future life is where we will go on helping to bring the universe to perfection, which is God's grand ultimate aim. [The purpose of life] is to help God run the universe. Everyone in that better land will be busy all the time, and the environment will be perfect all the time for doing the work which God assigns to all.

  Edwin Markham

  Running, Land, Perfect

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• To be in thousands of states of mind simultaneously as you perform simple physical tasks gives you a reverence for life. Each of these outer manifestations of life is God.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Simple, Giving

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• Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don't see what is in front of you because you're so distracted by your thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Mindfulness

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• Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dog, People, Suffering

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• Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reflection, Self, People

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• Reincarnation doesn't simply mean that at the end of this life you will move on to another life in another body, it means that the spirit of life is continually renewing itself and moving to a higher level.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Mean, Levels

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• To think you can just go out and help people and somehow get a better life is not reincarnation as I know it. A better life comes from being happy and inner realizations. Now if helping others adds to that, well then, it's great.

  Frederick Lenz

  Helping Others, Thinking, People

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• When a person who has had highly evolved past lives is going through a strong past-life transit, that person comes to know things about life, death and other dimensions that most people in our world aren't aware of.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Past, Our World

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• The knowledge of reincarnation assures us that life is worth living. Life is not a one-shot deal. It is forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Live Life, Forever, Reincarnation

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• Life is eternal and it's worth living. What we do in this life is not futile. Death is not the end. Our practice in this life will assist us in our next life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Practice, Next

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• What you will be in your next life is the sum total of the realizations that you have had in this lifetime.

  Frederick Lenz

  Realization, Next, Lifetime

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• The experience of the next life is too far away to really be concerned with. It will be an outgrowth of this incarnation and what happens between birth and death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Next, Birth, Far Away

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• If you feel some tremendous pressure to do everything perfectly so you won't have a horrible incarnation in your next life - that type of fear is unnecessary. Life is not that finicky.

  Frederick Lenz

  Next, Pressure, Unnecessary

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• Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

  Peter Prange

  Perfection, Strive, Achieve

  Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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• For a long time, my life has not been quote-unquote normal. And I'm OK with that, because what I'm trying to do is something that's above and beyond, that not very many people in America or the world have achieved at all. So, I don't mind that my life is so hectic and crazy.

  Mariel Zagunis

  Crazy, America, Long

  "Past wins aside, Mariel Zagunis still driven". Interview with Bonnie D. Ford, www.espn.com. December 8, 2011.

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• I'm 40 years old. What I have seen my whole life is widening income inequality.

  Robert Reich

  Years, Income, Inequality

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Things In Life, Cameras, Stories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows, A harvest of barren regrets.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Regret, Ambition, Men

  "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1860.

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• An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

  John F. Kennedy

  Artist, Discovery, Discipline

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• The true object of human life is play.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Play, Human Life, Humans

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