42 Quotes by Philip Gulley

Sometimes what we think we need isn’t what we need at all, and what gets thrown in for good measure is that which fills our hearts.

There is a certain transcendent joy in creating a thing of beauty. But even more fulfilling is to become a being of beauty.

Oddity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. What one person rejects as lunacy, another reveres as truth.

Legacies are hard to come by, after all. And if you have one going, you ought to do what you can to keep it alive.

When love takes you by the hand and leaves you better, that is home. That’s the place to stake your claim and build your life.

I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we’ve attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can’t be happy now, we’ll likely not be happy when.

When we’re young, we think we know all there is to know. Then we grow older, and the more we learn, the more we realize how little we actually know. It takes a wise man to realize just how much he doesn’t know.

We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.

There are things we see with our eyes, sitting high and looking out. And there are things we see with our hearts, sitting still and looking in.