Quotes on Life

Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Make love when you can. It's good for you.

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Love is the absence of judgment.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.