Anthology of quotation for lifelong skill development
» He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in
all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an
impartial eye.
- Buddha
» Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
- Buddha
» The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- Buddha
» Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- Buddha
» Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
- Buddha
» You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
» You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
» Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
» I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
» I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life
you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've
never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
» Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
» Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.
» I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
» To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
» He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
» That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
» There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
» You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
» He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is,
or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an
instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the
feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
» Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
» The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
» Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
» The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
» If you do this, we all of us shall be rewarded by the betterment of our towns, the beautification of our streets, the improvement of our suburbs; we shall have made one step forward to still further elevating, improving, and dignifying the life of our citizens.
» Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen.
» If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
» The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
» Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
» For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
» The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
» What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
» Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
» There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
» The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
» I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.''
» Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
