Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Alan Watts

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Alan Watts

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Alan Perlis

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Alan Paton

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Alan Moore

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

Alan Chadwick

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

Alan Bennett

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

Alan Bennett

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.

Alain Robert

I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.

Alan Ball

That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid. Ever. Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it... and my heart is going to cave in.

Alan Alda

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

Alan Alda

Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.

Alan Alda

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Akhenaton

Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes;so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once. His Christian life ceases to be the complicated thing it had been before and becomes the very essence of simplicity.

Chris Cleave

My whole life is my work.

Chris Cleave

Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.

Chris Cagle

Life is short so go on and live it cause the chicks dig it.

Chris Cagle

Scars heal, glory fades, and all we're left with are the memories made. pain hurts, but only for a minute. life is short, so go on and live it.

Chogyam Trungpa

The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.

Chogyam Trungpa

The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

Chogyam Trungpa

To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.

Chogyam Trungpa

In order to develop love - universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.

Chinua Achebe

A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

Chinua Achebe

In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest-without asking to be paid.

Chin-Ning Chu

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

Chief Seattle

The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Chief Seattle

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.