Quotes on Life

If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.

Only cowards hide behind silence.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.

I think it is a problem of our society that we don't enjoy (ourselves.) We have these values, like, you have to be rich, you have to get a diploma, you have to work hard, otherwise you are useless, you are nothing but a pariah. And the book asks, 'Is it true? This is what my mom told me, but is it true?

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.