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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.
There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.
And bid them love each other and be blest: And leave the troop which errs, and which reproves, And come and be my guest, - for I am Love's.
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.
The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.
Without love I mean nothing to you Without love broken in two Without love give me some value some worth Without love no life left on earth.
Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.
There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."
We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.
You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.
What shall we call this undetermin'd state, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans, That whence we came, and that to which we tend?
The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.
The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.
The illusion that you could hold to yourself the things you most want and lose the things you least wanted to keep..ıs the struggle of lıfe.
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
God...doesn't intend to help us live the Christian life. Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper. Maturity knows Him to be life itself.
No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.
Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.
Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living, I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.
If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.
joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Hindu is a geographical identity, or at the most a cultural one - not a religion. There is no set of beliefs that everyone has to adhere to.
I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.