Quotes on Life

On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.

I think the biggest single improvement, or change, that a person could make in one's life would be to come to a deeper understanding, a more expanded awareness of who they are, of who God is, of what God wants, of what life is really about, of the purpose of life.

Grant yourself permission to have all that life has to offer, and you will discover it has more to offer than you've ever imagined.

You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

Freedom... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less

He who is really kind, can never be unhappy

He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child.

In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing - all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art - at the door.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.