Quotes on Life

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breaths away.

Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

No one ever loses anyone. We are all one soul that needs to continue growing and developing in order for the world to carry on and for us all to meet once again.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

All of life is a foreign country.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?