As incarnations go by, the atom gets more complex. That is, your being, the part of you that reincarnates from lifetime to lifetime, the aggregate, grows thicker and denser.
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing. "
I feel an obligation to those people who are willing to go lay their lives on the line. These are the same people that when we call on them, and we 100 percent agree as a country. . . in our lifetime there's gonna be an event take place. . . just like when 911 happened, everybody wanted to bring them to justice. When we called on the troops, they went in.
A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.
Turn you situation over to God because He can do more in a moment than you can do in a lifetime.
When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about what we should have done or should have become. Conscience recognizes wrong and tries to atone. But guilt turns into resentment. Conscience brings us closer to each other; guilt drives us apart. Create a new feeling. Every time guilt settles in your stomach, write "I forgive" on a piece of paper. Send it up the chimney, tear it up and flush it, put it in the garbage. Don't eat it.
In my lifetime, I've met a lot of people who never rode a wave, but we share the same consciousness. Surfing is a kind of a state of mind. . . I mean, it's a feeling that people have about their life that really, in a way, kind of makes them a surfer.
Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.
Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.
Life is about fighting. You will going to have to fight everyday of your lifetime.
The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.
I learned I could live more than one life in a lifetime.
You're never going to truly wrap your head around things that take a lifetime to study while making a movie.
Give me an hour and I'll make a lifetime out of it.
Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.