Quotes on Loving Life

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

There is no education like adversity.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.

Love is more than a noun-it is a verb; it is more than a feeling-it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.

You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

We must become the change we want to see.