Life Quotes - Page 28

• Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it.

  Toni Packer

  Movement, Vastness, Zen Buddhism

  Toni Packer (2007). “The Light of Discovery”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Relationship, Expectations

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 04, 2012

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• Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Song, Inspirational Music

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from May 11, 2011

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• Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Singing, Bottles, Four

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• Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Writing

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• Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Littles, States, Human Condition

  Rasselas ch. 11 (1759)

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• What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control

  Denzel Washington

  Success, Faith, Issues

  Denzel Washington, Daniel Paisner (2006). “A Hand to Guide Me”, p.172, Meredith Books

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• One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

  James Earl Jones

  Love, Heart, Reality

  James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company

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• Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

  Carrie Fisher

  Lines, Actresses, Horrible

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• There will be mistakes and there will be falters. There will be things that are not a part of your plan. See the challenges in your life and accept them and embrace them.

  Dominique Dawes

  Mistake, Acceptance, Gymnastics

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• Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.

  Horatius Bonar

  Death, Christian, Eternity

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• Stop worrying and start living.

  Dale Carnegie

  Encouraging, Worry, Anxiety

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, Simon and Schuster

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• Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

  Carl Sandburg

  Time, Attitude, Positivity

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  The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Education, Peace

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.401, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

  Stephen Colbert

  Good Life

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• A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.163, Vintage

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• The good man is the friend of all living things.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Nature, Men

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• Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Wind, Sailing

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• Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

  Salvador Dali

  Beautiful, Art, Work

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• The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

  Norman Thomas

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Humorous

  Norman Thomas (1961). “Great Dissenters”

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• The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Chiefs, Wanted

  "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, (Ch. V), 1877.

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• I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all ... it's just about over.

  Sandra Hochman

  Organized

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• Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Competition, Criminals

  Bertrand Russell (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970”, p.215, Psychology Press

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• When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

  Winston Churchill

  Depressing, Funny Inspirational, Fear

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War”

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• A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiration, Warrior, Victory

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