Quotes about life
life heart men
A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair. Frederick the Great
life mean men
Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living. Franklin D. Roosevelt
life wise intelligent
Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.
life perseverance teaching
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
life teenage kids
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone. George Foreman
life problem
You make problem, you have problem Jon Kabat-Zinn
life mean knowing
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
life unique animal
Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there can be no one place to be. There can be no one way to be, no one way to practice, no one way to learn, no one way to love, no one way to grow or to heal, no one way to live, no one way to feel, no one thing to know or be known. The particulars count.
life knowing people
Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.
life doe dies
He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
life adventure journey
For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.
life mean practice
Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.
life circles way
If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles...
life spiritual kindness
Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
life letting-go powerful
To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.
life thinking actuality
Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
life journey honor
Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?
life strong attachment
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.
life mother doors
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
life live-in-the-moment alive
You are only here now; you're only alive in this moment.
life meditation-practice trying
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.
life trying watches
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?
life inspiring simplicity
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
life song teaching
Who sings of all of Love's eternity Who shines so bright In all the songs of Love's unending spells? Holy lightning strikes all that's evil Teaching us to love for goodness sake. Hear the music of Love Eternal Teaching us to reach for goodness sake. Jon Anderson
life beautiful couple
What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process, they have grown old together. We can sense the enormous comfort, the shared quality of ease between these people. It is beautiful, and very rare. Without this quality of openness and vulnerability, partners don't really know each other; they are one image living with another image.... Joko Beck
life hurt moving
Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.
life teacher loss
Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru.
life listening stuff
When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff. Jojo Moyes
life together way
I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together. John Zorn
life trying care
I couldn't care less what anybody says about me. I live my life, especially my personal life, strictly for myself.... Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. Johnny Carson
life secret concepts
The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand. Luigi Pirandello
life men knowing
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
life needs strange
Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.