Living should be perpetual and universal benediction. — Wei Wu Wei
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. — Zeno of Elea
Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms. — Eliphas Levi
In life... we need to find a balance. You have to set rules and limitations - that is called discipline. And you have to practice that in all your worlds. — Cesar Millan
Life consists of two days:
one for you and one against you, so when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. — Walt Whitman
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living. — Sri Aurobindo
Positive Life Rules Quotes
Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live. — Anne Sweeney
Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world. — Robert Greene
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff. — Mike Davies
I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me. — Jesse Ventura
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions. — Amber Riley
He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel. — Paul Klee
My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you would have them do unto you. — Tony Oller
If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life. — Sister Souljah
Life Without Rules Quotes
The trading rules I live by are: 1. Cut losses. 2. Ride winners. 3. Keep bets small. 4. Follow the rules without question. 5. Know when to break the rules. — Ed Seykota
I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic. — Mark Gonzales
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established — Confucius
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
Man is either governed by his own laws - freedom - or the laws of another - slavery. Are you willing to become slaves? Will you give up your freedom, your life and your property without a single struggle? No man has a right to rule over his fellow creatures. — Alexander Hamilton
Taoism has no rules. It's a suggestion for preceiving life in its wholeness, without unnessary categorization, yet enjoying the beauty of categorization. — Frederick Lenz
Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent. — Michel de Montaigne
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time. — Yoko Ono
This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions. — Philip Alston
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. — Anne Stevenson
I know there's a principle of spirit. It works without space-time. I am subject to that principle, in spirit and in belief of body. Learn how spirit works, a few simple rules, living a perfect spiritual life is easy. — Richard Bach
Rules Of Life Quotes
Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope. — Philippe Petit
Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule. — Milarepa
By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us. — Alan Watts
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same. — Dan Millman
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. — Winston Churchill
There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity. — Confucius
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity. — Alfred Adler
If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another. — Vincent Price
The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life. — Giordano Bruno
You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules. — Joseph Campbell
My Life My Rules Quotes
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. — Charles Dickens
I live by my own rules (reviewed, revised, and approved by my wife).. but still my own. — Si Robertson
Patience is important, and also, if you don't want to do it, don't do it. But if you do, do. That's a general rule in how I live my life. — Mac DeMarco
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. — Charles Darwin
I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR. — Thaddeus Stevens
I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. — Aaron Burr
My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living. — Ryan McGinley
Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that. — Jackie Collins
My number one rule in business, and in life, is to enjoy what you do. Running a business involves long hours and hard decisions; if you don't have the passion to keep you going, your business will more than likely fail. If you don't enjoy what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it. — Richard Branson
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
When children are allowed to help make family decisions, they tend to be much more supportive and happier with family life. Also when allowed to help make rules, they will follow them much closer than if rules are forced on them. All these add up to a happier home for all. — Sayings
When I hear Christians say, "I don't do this, and I don't do that, and I am following a set of rules," I immediately recognize that they know very little about the grace of God. They are trying to live the Christian life in their own strength. But Paul says, "Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." — J. Vernon McGee
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. — Pablo Picasso
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. — Edward L. Bernays
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules. — Bobby Jones
Anything that effects our decisions besides that of the Glory of God and His Will Alone is an idol. Why are people so free to do as they please and make decisions off of pleasures, feelings or emotion? It is because they have not been taken captive by the Lord Jesus Christ and He alone does not rule in that life, there are rivals on the throne. — David Wilkerson
Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction of humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature — Naomi Klein
What we do know is that humans’ utter dominance on this Earth suggests a clear rule: with intelligence comes power. Which means an ASI, when we create it, will be the most powerful being in the history of life on Earth, and all living things, including humans, will be entirely at its whim—and this might happen in the next few decades. — Tim Urban
The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules. — Bobby Jones
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in. — Katherine Mansfield
Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws. — Confucius
It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life. — Jonathan Swift
The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the principles of political, economic, and religious freedom, the rule of law and respect for human life. We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom. — Rudy Giuliani
The central rule in life is that it is much, much better to panic early than late. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you’re going to be. — Tony Robbins
Life is good, life is great.
Always love and never hate.
Break the rules, stand apart.
Ignore your head and follow your heart. — Ashley Purdy
Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache. — Fulton J. Sheen
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once. — Ken Venturi
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. — Blaise Pascal
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