Quotes on Life

Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

Ester asked why people are sad. "That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.