Quotes on Life

There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.

To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.

A Warrior knows that a great dream is made up of many different things, just as the light from the sun is the sum of its millions of rays.

One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Running an airline is the most difficult job in the world. Racing was more dangerous for my life.

When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and the snow comes, is some kind of defeat, something which we should hold out against. No. Winter is part of the natural course of events. No winter, no summer. No cold, no heat.

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

When I was young, I dreamt of being a starlet in Hollywood. But there comes a point in every African American's life when you realize the limitations, that you could only play maids or some little supporting role. Even Lena Horne couldn't get good parts.

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.

The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances.

If any one idea can justly be called the American idea, it is that a child's circumstances at birth should not determine the station in life that that child will occupy as an adult.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

No man was ever wise by chance.

There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.