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Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.
Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.
Some say that life has no form, that it is extremely diffuse. I think I can agree with them. ... A life without conclusions is painful.
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.
In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."
The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.
There'll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read 'em but all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em.
Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night.
God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.
I thank to all the shadows and all the darknesses of my life; it is owing to them that I now love the light much more than ever before!
Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction.
In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.
We have every reason in time and eternity to rejoice and give thanks for the quality of our lives and the blessings we have been given.
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
With yoga, not only your body should become flexible - your mind and emotions, and above all your consciousness should become flexible.
Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.
Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!
So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.
Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
For drinking Life there are two cups: The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy -- Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?
Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.
Her life was like running on a treadmill or riding on a stationary bike; it was aerobic, it was healthy, but she wasn't going anywhere.
I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
I guess it's the age group of students; You are questioning life. Then there are those who actually see their problems reflected in it.
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind.