Quotes on Life

Simple idea with powerful consequences: everyone who intersects your life knows something you don't.

I am and will always be a Laker for life.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life, and some starved impulse left him to lay bare his soul. I have in this way learned more about men in a night than I could if I had known them for 10 years. If you are interested in human nature, it is one of the greatest pleasures of travel.

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted without having a successful career. You can be exalted if you are not rich and famous. So focus the best that you can on those things in life that will lead you back to the presence of God - keeping all things in their proper balance.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Relationships are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which he brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice.

If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.