Quotes about life
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It had nothing to do with Pat even. It was the melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them; that love begins with a human being but does not end in him; and that everything can be there: a human being, love, happiness, life — and that yet in some terrible way it is always too little, and grows ever less the more it seems.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
One has to do something new in order to see something new.
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
In Los Angeles, I drive a hybrid and live in a very simple home. Anything you do from carrying a canteen of water to starting a recycling program in your office makes a difference. Reusing what you already have has always been green - from clothes to boxes to glass jars from the supermarket.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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