Famous Quotes & Sayings

Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you.

Your life is magnificent not because someone says it is, but because you choose to see it as such

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

Rajneesh

Life as such has to be taken as a cosmic joke - and then suddenly you relax because there is nothing to be tense about. And in that very relaxation something starts changing in you - a radical change, a transformation - and the small things of life starts having new meaning, new significance. One learns only one thing, how to rejoice in life.

Rajneesh

Don't be bothered by perfection. Replace the word 'Perfection' by 'Totality. Totality will give you a different dimension.

Rajneesh

Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.

Rajneesh

The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.

Rainer Maria Rilke

You life will find its own paths... and that they be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say.

Rainer Maria Rilke

He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Truly it is glorious, our being here.

Rainer Maria Rilke

. . . denn da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht. Du musst dein Leben andern. (... for there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.)

Rainer Maria Rilke

We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible in it. This is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most inexplicable.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Live the questions now.

Rainer Maria Rilke

You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that is, passed through you]. Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

Rainer Maria Rilke

And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The only journey is the one within.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Sharon Van Etten

Life is too short to surround yourself with people who aren't looking out for you.

Shane Harper

When people know they are created with a purpose, and not here by accident, it is life-changing.

Scott Baio

Life is too short no matter what party you are with

Michael W. Smith

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

Michael Lee-Chin

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you.

Sidney Sheldon

Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it

Sidney Sheldon

If. A two-letter word for futility.

Sidney Sheldon

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.

Sidney Sheldon

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

Sidney Poitier

I am the me I choose to be.

Sholom Aleichem

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Sherman Alexie

If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.