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When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.
Anyone must remember that dad left when I was 3 years old. Mom and I lived out of the limelight. We lived a totally different life.
You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
This is the first time in my life I've had hair this short. It's always been down to my waist. I can't hide behind my hair any more
Gossip is a kind of misalignment with people around you. You can either gossip about everyone, or you can become one with everyone.
From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love To long for, pureness to desire, a mount Of consecration it were good to scale.
The dance is strong magic. The body can fly without wings. It can sing without voice. The dance is strong magic. The dance is life.
There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.
And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well!
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.
You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.
In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.
Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.
I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.
Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.
I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.
Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?
When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.
You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. But the opposite is also true; without strong self-belief you will not go far.
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!
In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.
I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition. Our souls can't be destroyed. I know we are going to live in another life.
People often ask me how I keep my priorities straight in life and I tell them that it is done by constantly straightening them out!
Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.