Quotes on Life

The House_x000D_ _x000D_ ...She lays her beams in music,_x000D_ In music everyone,_x000D_ To the cadence of the whirling world_x000D_ Which dances around the sun-_x000D_ That so they shall not be displaced_x000D_ By lapses or by wars,_x000D_ But for the love of happy souls_x000D_ Outlive the newest stars.

Smiling, sincere, incorruptible -_x000D_ _x000D_ His body disciplined and limber._x000D_ _x000D_ A man who had become what he could,_x000D_ _x000D_ And was what he was-_x000D_ _x000D_ Ready at any moment to gather everything_x000D_ _x000D_ Into one simple sacrifice.

When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.

Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center.

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

The lie is a condition of life.

Art is the proper task of life.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.