You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.
I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.
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.
I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.
Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life.
We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.
I don’t read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite’s rules for old men, which he did not deliver over the air: Never trust a fart. Never pass up a drink. Never ignore an erection.
The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind.
The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
The older you get, the more rules they’re gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin’ man, l-i-v-i-n’
A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too likely to be foolish in another.
The Gospel teaches us what Jesus' kingdom requires of us... Reminds us that closeness and tenderness are the rules of life.
Everything is perfect. Everything is fine. The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind. Of course there may be courtesies And closures and laws to abide, But the zeal with which you play Relies on where YOU draw the line
Sometimes rules are there to save your life.
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.
There are important rules in life - like not parking on yellow lines or stealing from your neighbour. But some rules are made to be broken.
We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.
Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. So real religion is always without rules; only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit
Each one of us has the ability to play the game of life with balance, harmony and joy, but we need to know the rules and the principles.
There's no one who has more authority over my life than me. And I can learn things myself and how to communicate to other people and how to apply with the rules of life.
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck. Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune
Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?
We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.
