Life Quotes - Page 555

Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good man or any good woman awakens the thought of Enlightenment and takes even only four lines from this Discourse, reciting, using, receiving, retaining and spreading them abroad and explaining them for the benefit of others, it will be far more meritorious. Now in what manner may he explain them to others? By detachment from appearances-abiding in Real Truth. -So I tell you-Thus shall you think of all this fleeting world:A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;A flash of lightening in a summer cloud,A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.When Buddha finished this Discourse the venerable Subhuti, together with the bhikshus, bhikshunis, lay-brothers and sisters, and the whole realms of Gods, Men and Titans, were filled with joy by His teaching, and, taking it sincerely to heart they went their ways.

If words are the truth, what is living for?

Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations. When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters.

Toba Beta

You know, a few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realized something, and instead of crushing the thought the moment it came I... I let it hang on, and now I know it to be true. And I'm afraid it's stuck in my head forever. These are the best days of our lives. It's a terrible thing to know, but I know it.

This life is our shared dream.We all may meet again in reality.

Toba Beta

There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.

Jonathan Safran Foer

True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.

Tiffany Madison

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

on doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité.

Voltaire

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.

Jonathan Safran Foer

All we know is what we're told.

Ashly Lorenzana

I am going to die, but that is of no importance.

Masks camouflage the faces of both good and evil. Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie.

There's one other thing I'd like to remind you of, my dear. There've been many times when you've sworn to me that after all that life has dealt you, it was no longer possible for you to believe in anything. I replied that both life and my studies had led me to the same conclusion. I asked you, 'What is a person permitted, once he's realized that truth is unattainable and consequently doesn't exist for him?' Do you remember your answer?""I do, ibn Sabbah. I said something like this: 'If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.

Vladimir Bartol

A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths.

Your kids pissing you off is an inborn instinct. It's nature's way of getting you to kick them out when they turn 18!Okaaay. ~sigh~ Due to the times, you can kick them out between the ages of 28-38. Can someone please dramatically reduce the cost of housing, already?~SHEESH~

Its not how strong you are, its how firm your footing is.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

You can't be spontaneous within reason.

Brittany DeLaBarrera

Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who Love you.

Norlito Baclayen

time does stop sometimes, you see everyone passing by, following their destiny and the destination it is leading, and you conclude its better where you are then moving again....often history repeats itself before it changes.....

Prashant

One's rebuke engraves itself upon the mind more than one's praise.

Seth D.

if its gets rough, you need to get tough.

Also at times, on the surface of streams,Water?bubbles formAnd grow and burstAnd have no meaning at allExcept that they’re water?bubblesGrowing and bursting.

There are no roses in my yard: what wind brought you?But I suddenly come from far away. I was sick for a moment.No wind whatsoever brought you now.Now you’re here.What you were isn’t you, or else the whole rose would be here.

Holding on to the past will hold you down in life. Learn from it but move on.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

the gods play nofavorites.

Charles Bukowski

Love life comes last in my life. I put real life first.

Cyc Jouzy

I thought I had everything until I found you.

The dead never go to their own funeral.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me.

Jennifer Elisabeth

How initially 'to get her in the sack' and subsequently to avoid 'her giving you the sack' are not identical dilemmas faced by the male species, but they sure have a bizarre habit of being bedfellows

There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.

D. Antoinette Foy

There is nothing more powerful than truth. It is undeniable and should always be appreciated. The truth gives you unlimited freedom to be who you are and express how you feel. The truth offers you peace of mind which is something we all love.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.My thought crosses the river I swim very slowlyBecause the suit men made it wear weighs it down.

Fear nothing but your conscience.

If there's one person in the world you should be with, there must be one person in the world you shouldn't be with.

Amy Zhang

There is no conscience in a real war.

Toba Beta

Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is the source of all beauty, since it is the source of all life.

Eugène Carrière

There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties.

Toba Beta

May I have a few friends and many books - both true.

Arthur Ernest Cowley

Smartass Disciple: But, you said that it's the truth??Master of Stupidity: O Yes. That is yesterday's truth.

Toba Beta

Smartass Disciple: Three years! I've listened you preaching just for this silly truth?Master of Stupidity: Who said I was preaching? Who said anything about the truth?

Toba Beta

Belief has nothing to do with facts,especially for the unbelievable facts.

Toba Beta

When mortals discuss about the eternity,conclusively it will be a lifetime discussion.

Toba Beta

In no man's land, alien is the queen.

Toba Beta

Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body. The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently.By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.

Toba Beta

He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.

Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.

William J. Harris

Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn't make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved.

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees. Reminding us, that the universe does not exist to fulfill our expectations. Because we are imperfect beings who are self-blinded to the truth of the world’s stunning complexity, we shave reality to paper thin theories and ideologies that we can easily grasp – and we call them truths. But the truth of a sea in all it’s immensity cannot be embodied in one tidewashed pebble.

...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

Šausmīgi daudz taisnību. Nojukt var, ja nav savējās.

Imants Ziedonis

Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floor. "A brief life seems pointless."Tristan thought for a moment. "Isn't that what life is, though? A brief opportunity to exist? A short gift?

A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed.

Richelle E. Goodrich

I never talk back. I listen and always remember your every word, so come pen or mouse, never forget that I will treasure your thoughts forever. Yours truly, Paper.

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