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It takes some living to discover that the living itself is one's life, that life is not a goal to attain but a possession to relish.
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
'Grease' is one of the movies that made me want to be an entertainer, and I have literally been waiting my whole life to play Sandy.
As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.
Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.
Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.
The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.
Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone. Strange! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long.
I fail sometimes, I succeed sometimes, so that's fair enough. It's a package deal. It comes with that package: failures and success.
Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.
Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked. "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.
Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.
Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.
Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.
I'm just living my life and I’m being the best mother that I can and showing that on Teen Mom because that's what that show is about.
My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict.
Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.
It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.
He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity.
If we seek first the Kingdom of God and live as we should, all the rest of life seems to fall into place and wonderful things happen.
When I first saw you, I saw love And the first time you touched me, I felt love And after all this time, You're still the one I love.
Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more.
If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.
Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.
A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.
This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements.