Quotes on Life

Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.

To me, life is a gift, and it's a blessing to just be alive. And each person should learn what a gift it is to be alive no matter how tough things get.

close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere

Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off - beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what happens when we try to draw closer? Roads run all around them, flowers grow between you and your objective, what seemed so clear on the map is tough in real life. So try all the paths and all the tracks until eventually one day you're standing in front of the top that you yearn to reach.

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and ... if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse... I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being's right to exist.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe. If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch tv too much. We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.