That Is Life. Quotes

One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense.

I’ll tell you the difference between our countries. Americans think life is serious but not hopeless

We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.

Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world.

No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger.

The boundaries we erect to divide heaven from earth, mind from matter, real from unreal are mere conveniences. Having made the boundaries, we can unmake them just as easily.

Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.

I have learned that I always feel happier and healthier when I offer genuine love to other people.

One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Since we cling to our hope in the future, we do not focus our energies and capabilities on the present moment

The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved

Practicing mindfulness enables us to become a real person. When we are a real person, we see real people around us, and life is present in all its richness.

Whether we are in the city, the countryside, or the wilderness, we need to sustain ourselves by choosing our surroundings carefully and nourishing our awareness in each moment.

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

We are too undemanding, too ready to watch whatever is on the screen, too lonely, lazy, or bored to create our own lives. We turn on the TV and leave it on, allowing someone else to guide us[.]

In the West, we are very goal oriented. We know where we want to go, and we are very directed in getting there. This may be useful, but often we forget to enjoy ourselves along the route.

Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.

I have lost my smile, but don't worry.The dandelion has it.

It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go.

What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself.

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything

Peace is based on respect for life, the spirit of reverence for life.

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

Most people spend their entire lives just trying to live life

If we are aware of our lifestyle, our way of consuming, of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment we are alive.

The critics only made me work harder.

Truth is found in life and not merely in conceptual knowledge.

Love has no meaning without understanding

Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot

We wanted peace. We did not care about anyone’s victory or defeat. We just wanted the bombs to stop falling on us.

Saint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays. - Coco Chanel

When you understand, you cannot help but love. You cannot get angry.

Love is what freed me from the cell of my selfishness.

Only he who knows how to speak can be silent.

He had a voice you couldn't miss: strong and penetrating with strange vowels that sounded different from the accents of other English speakers even to me. I later discovered that he was Canadian.

Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world.

The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves “inside the skin” of the other.

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

Trillian did a little research in the ship's copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It had some advice to offer on drunkenness. "Go to it, " it said, "and good luck.

Ultimately humanity is one, and this small planet is our only home. If we're to protect this home of ours, each of us needs to experience a vivid sense of universal altruism and compassion.

The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be.

Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.

Home is the school where we learn that love shows itself in the details.

Humility is a peace that accepts one's strengths and limitations.

Health is a perishable thing.

To be just, a law has to be flexible.

...two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other based on getting people to practice gratitude.

Requests will always exceed resources. Doing good is imperative. Doing everything is impossible.