Quotes Tagged "life"

It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others--to shake them out of their rut.

According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him 'What is the beginning of God?' he would answer without hesitation 'God has no beginning', and he is not astonished at his own reply.

Make life easier by living in the present and believing in the future.

The warrior learns of the spiritual realm by dwelling on the cutting edge of the sword, standing at the edge of the fire pit, venturing right up to the edge of starvation if necessary. Vibrant and intense living is the warrior's form of worship.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.

On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.

Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative.

Cemeteries used to be nice and quiet. Now they're teeming with life.

Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself.

We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people

Love is my inner strength and my power.

Life is a magical journey, so travel endlessly to unfold its profound and heart touching beauty.

Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honour, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!

Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. Fruits are most welcome when almost over; youth is most charming at its close; the last drink delights the toper, the glass which souses him and puts the finishing touch on his drunkenness. Each pleasure reserves to the end the greatest delights which it contains. Life is most delightful when it is on the downward slope, but has not yet reached the abrupt decline.

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world.

The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become.

Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them.