Life is a certain amount of time and energy. We have no control over time, it passes at the same rate for all us, but how well we choose to spend that time depends on how well we manage our physical, mental and life energies.
Know that all unpleasant experiences you have been through have given you depth and thank them. And the pleasant experiences have given you an opportunity to serve more, and thank them too. Life is a mixture of pleasant and unpleasant.
Happiness and joy should be a constant ambiance of who you are.
What’s the purpose of life? It’s to live.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We’re spiritual beings having a human experience.
You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching. Love like you'll never be hurt. Sing like there's nobody listening And live like it's heaven on earth.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
We’re the first generation that are hunted by what we eat.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Happiness and joy is not something you that you seek in the world, it should be a constant ambiance of who you are.
We should not seek love, love is a quality of who we are.
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
Where there is love there is life.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.
I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
You are never too small to make a difference.
The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
There is only one soil, one flora, one fauna, one people, and hence only one conservation problem.
Girls education, it turns out, has a dramatic bearing on global warming. Women with more years of education have fewer, healthier children and actively manage their reproductive health.
A nation that destroys its soils, destroys itself.
We are the environment and ecology
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.
All you need is less. Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
The only thing that’s going to save the planet is falling in love with nature.
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth, these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.
We are at a unique stage in our history. Never before have we had such an awareness of what we are doing to the planet, and never before have we had the power to do something about that. Surely we all have a responsibility to care for our Blue Planet. The future of humanity and indeed, all life on earth, now depends on us.
Good environmental policy is good economic policy.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Small minds discuss other people, good minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas.
I don’t believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
Work without love is slavery.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
Life is so short you can't waste even a day subscribing to what someone thinks you can do versus knowing what you can do.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made, what's a sundial in the shade?
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
There will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better. What do do about mass employment? This is going to be a mass social challenge. I think unlitmatly we'll have to have some kind of universal basic income. I don’t think we're going to have a choice.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
The greater the outward show, the greater the inward poverty.
The strongest man is the one who, when he gets angry and his face reddens and his hackles rise, is able to defeat his anger.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
If you want to explore the deepest dimensions of life playfully, you need a heart full of love, a joyful mind and a vibrant body.
Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine. If we change in our relationship, society changes.
Every human being has some sort of genius, but they destroy it by trying to be like someone else.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Small minds discuss other people, good minds discuss events. great minds discuss ideas. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Seek refuge in the attitude of detachment and you will amass the wealth of spiritual awareness. The one who is motivated only by the desire for the fruits of their action, and anxious about the results, is miserable indeed.
Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway...
The mind is the wave, the soul is the ocean
Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way we can grow is if we change. The only way we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we are exposed is if we throw ourselves into the open.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
Be like the flower that gives fragrance even to the hand that crushes it.