Never waste time for someone who doesn’t bother to spend time with you, but with someone who will say, time is wasted if I’m not with you.
In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.
Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.
The pathway traced with blood and tears,and dust of all our father’s dead,Whose backward footsteps, wandering, red,Fade to the mist of nameless years.(“The Testimony of the Suns”)
When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
The problem with being alive, I can tell you now, is that it happens so fast, we don’t have the time to make sense of it in the same way that you can once you’re dead.
A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman’s heart.
In the end, it wasn’t death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.
The problem with the world is that most people are living slightly ahead of reality, in a kind of confused panic mode, constantly manifesting and projecting their own futures. If they could only slow down their minds and arrive in the present moment of reality, then, I am sure their world and the overall world would be improved.
How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you’re alive, unaware that one day you will die.
It’s easy to look back and see it, and it’s easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don’t look beneath the surface until it’s too late.
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
Stay with me to-night; you must see me die. I have long had the taste of death on my tongue, I smell death, and who will stand by my Constanze, if you do not stay?
Now I gazed out of my office window. Slowly the world was changing from old-gold to the deep purple which, in the words of that dreamy song Mum was fond of humming, bathes garden walls under the twinkle of starlight.
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.
To maximize time is to make sure that every second, minute and hour counts
What is of the nature of spirit and soul must be gleaned from facts belonging to the spirit and soul; we shall then know that in the living thinking which is liberated from the will, a life-germ has been discerned which passes through the gate of death, goes through the spiritual world after death, and afterwards returns again to earthly life.
If there is an after, I hope it’s not dark. And I hope you can remember. I’d hate to wander around in the dark forever, not knowing who I was or what I was doin’ here, or not even knowing that I’d ever had anything different.
I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.
People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.
But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can’t just assume that because something is old it is right.
Invest where you are more likely to get the best results. Wasteful investments can only waste your time.
Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you’re gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.
We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.
He watched his feet, the only things that were keeping him from finding out if there really was a Kingdom of Heaven or not.
I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.
Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.
So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?Not likely! I’m a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I’m not doing it!
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.
Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath and life went out of me and there was no time and no tomorrow but only my lips against his.
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.
You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.
Creativity sparks originality, which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life.
It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin.
Never stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
Psychologists have clinically observed that overly prolonged grief in the bereaved usually signifies a poor relationship with the one who died.
Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.
I don’t deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.
If I could, I would live forever in this moment. But no one can live in a moment, and time moves on.
Learn to drive?”
“Never,” said Quentin. “My mission in life is to be a passenger.
Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children’s minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That’s it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge.
When you’ve tried everything and failed, try everything else and succeed
Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time… I think I’ve forgotten this before.
Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
The negotiations were simultaneously cerebral and physical, abstract and personal, something like a combination of chess and mountain climbing.