Tag: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Inspiring Life Quotes to Live By

Posted on July 15, 2011 by

1. “It’s better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.” –William Markiewicz

2. “Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life… Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.” – Viktor Frankl

3. “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” –Kahlil Gibran

4. “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie

5. “Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn, willing to make changes, and if necessary, to let go, we are demanding our power be turned on.” –Iyanla Vanzant

6. Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. –Nicolas de Chamfort

7. “Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead; that is where your future lies.” –Ann Landers

8. “Circumstances and situations do color life but you have been given the mind to choose what the color shall be.” –John Homer Miller

9. “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.” –Jiddu Krishnamurti

10. “Whatever you want in life, start today. Not tomorrow – today. Let it be a small beginning – a tiny beginning. Your happiness depends on starting today – every day.” –Jonathan Lockwood Huie

11. “The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.” –Veronique Vienne

12. “For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his or her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.” –Andy Rooney

13. “The three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.” –Addison

14. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have 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.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

15. “Life is not a journey to the grave with intentions of arriving safely in a pretty well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming … WOW! What a ride!” –Unknown

16. “To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.” –Peter Abrahams

17. “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life… I think that what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.” –Joseph Campbell

18. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover” –Mark Twain

19. “Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.” –Charles Richards

20. “Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process.” –Anthony Robbins

21. “It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived –forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.” –Soren Kierkegaard

22. “For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.” –Fr. Alfred D’Souza

23. “I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” –Jack London

24. “Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” –Mary Anne Radmacher

25. “When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.” –Greg Anderson

Famous Quotes

Posted on March 3, 2011 by

– “I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.” – Walt Disney

– “In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” – Andy Warhol

– “My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person.” – Andy Warhol

– “I’m bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is «In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.»” – Andy Warhol

– “I didn’t know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he’d be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much… that I had a hard time painting him.” – Norman Rockwell

– “Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else.” – Orson Welles

– “Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.” – Bill O’Reilly

– “What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.” – Voltaire

– “The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I’m going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.” – John McCain

– “Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.” – Marilyn vos Savant

– “A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.” – P. J. O’Rourke

– “When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.” – Katharine Hepburn

– “I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.” – Stephen Colbert

– “When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That’s what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was You’re a Big Boy Now.” – Francis Ford Coppola

– “We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

– “Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.” – George Bernard Shaw

– “People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.” – Jerry Lewis

– “Any idiot can get laid when they’re famous. That’s easy. It’s getting laid when you’re not famous that takes some talent.” – Kevin Bacon

– “Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.” – Jeff Foxworthy

If you…

Posted on September 17, 2010 by

– “If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.”

– “If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got.”

– “If you are headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns.”

– “If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances.”

– “If you are not big enough to lose you are too small to win.”

– “If you are not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.” – Leo Tolstoy

– “If you are not fired with enthusiasm, then you will be fired with enthusiasm.” – Vince Lombardi

– “If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate.”

– “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” – Chinese Proverb

– “If you are willing to admit you are wrong when you are wrong, you are all right.”

– “If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

– “If you believe everything you read, don’t read” – Chinese proverb

– “If you came and you found a strange man teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you’d kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don’t think twice about it.” – Jerome Singer

– “If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death…you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.”

– “If you can keep your head while all about are losing theirs and blaming it on you – perhaps you have underestimated the seriousness of the situation.”

– “If you can laugh with a person, you can work with a person.”

– “If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.”

– “If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?” – Shantideva

– “If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to serve as a horrible warning.”

– “If you can’t be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.”

– “If you can’t control the wind, adjust your sail.”

– “If you can’t convince them, confuse them.” – Harry S. Truman