Life Quotes
-
The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.
-
As night the life-inclining stars best shows,So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
-
All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life.
-
A dancer's life is all about repetition.
-
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
-
However long you have a cat and however plainly he lays his life open before you, there is always something hidden, some name he goes by in a place you never heard of.
-
I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.
-
In business or in life, focus on the things over which you do have some control. And don't fret about all the other problems. Most of the time, they don't come true anyway!
-
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
-
You know when you're thinking about what you want to be when you grow up, or how you want your life to pan out. I couldn't imagine anything better than living in a hotel so you'd never have to worry about washing up, making the bed, anything like that, and having a servant to come in and play all your favourite TV programmes.
-
I'd sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.
-
No matter our age, circumstances, or abilities, each one of us can create something remarkable of his life.
-
[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.
-
What I do is my life, but it's not like I spend 18 hours a day, seven days a week in the restaurants.
-
The selfknowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.
-
Our values and way of life will prevail - terrorism will not.
-
Being a pastor, of course, obviously people would say it (shouldn't) have done much but, boy, it sure gave me a peace I never had before. I think we struggle in life. Even people of faith struggle when things don't work out quite the way we think they should.
-
Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.
-
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
-
Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.
-
Scientific education is by far the best training for all walks of life because it teaches us how to assess situations critically and react accordingly. It gives us an understanding based on reverence for life-enhancing technologies as well as for life itself.
-
Take advantage of the opportunities that come before you in life.
-
In the springtime of America's cultural life, its itinerant folk artiststook totheroad to record the life and times of a people.Perhaps never again will we have an artistic record created in such direct and unassuming terms.
-
The greatest mystery is why there is something instead of nothing, and the greatest something is this thing we call life.
