Quotes on Life

You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side - you can only help. It is a manifestation from within; it develops its own nature - you can only take away obstructions.

Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. I think life is a process. Through the ages, the end of heroes is the same as ordinary men. They all died and gradually faded away in the memory of man. But when we are still alive, we have to understand ourselves, discover ourselves and express ourselves. In this way, we can progress, but we may not be successful.

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.

Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say.

It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voice could be that difference.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always promised himself he would never become enslaved by, has gradually become his sole reason to go on living.

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking.

Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.

Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.

Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.

Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children (who are, apparently, deaf to the constant rows).

Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."

Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.

He seemed to be talking about my fears, my insecurity, and my unwillingness to see what was wonderful because tomorrow it might disappear and I might suffer. The gods throw the dice, and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.

I am the perpetrator of my suffering - but only all of it.

I believe everything is one thing only. That said, there are some questions in my life that I don't know.. I've stopped asking. At the very beginning of my life, I wanted to have answers for everything. And now I respect the fact that I can't have answers for everything.