Quotes on Life

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms that come from the ability to enjoy things without having to acquire them, own them, possess them. Try to envision a relationship based on acceptance and genuine care rather than expectation. Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is. Who wouldn't want this? This is the enjoyment of non-attachment.

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

I don’t think of work as work and play as play. It’s all living.

If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures...I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.

Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

If you correct your mind the rest of your life will fall into place.

As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.

Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.

The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.