Life Quotes
To live is like to love -- all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.
A life lived in love will never be dull.
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear -- it's active disengagement.
Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast. You can't wait to do your exercises. You can't wait to put on your clothes. You can't wait to get out. And you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot.
Nature has made you for a giver: Your hands are born open, and so is your heart.
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality -- not as we expect it to be but as it is -- is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.
Live everyday fully as if it were your last.
The secret of joy is contained in one word -- excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, whose deeds both great and small are close-knit strands of an unbroken thread, where love enables all.
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?
I am not just here to make a living; I am here to make a life.
Life is an earnest business, and no one ever became good or great on a diet of broad grins.
If someone is wiser, if someone is happier by my having lived, my life will not have been in vain.