Life Quotes - Page 120

Endure graciously the difficult times.

We continue to need exhortations to be sympathetic and just, even if we do not believe that there is a God who has a hand in wishing to make us so. We no longer have to be brought into line by the threat of hell or the promise of paradise; we merely have to be reminded that it is we ourselves -- that is, the most mature and reasonable parts of us (seldom present in the midst of our crises and obsessions) -- who want to lead the sort of life which we once imagined supernatural beings demanded of us. An adequate evolution of morality from superstition to reason should mean recognizing ourselves as the authors of our own moral commandments.

I’m not afraid of death, just of dying.

Replace the negative traits of your character by the traits you want to have

Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want to die happy.

The wisdom of LIFE eludes even the best...For those who pass the test Life is a fest,While, its forever, A battle for the rest..

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

I know every single street in this town. And I love strolling these streets in the mornings, in the evenings, and then at night when I am merry and tipsy. I love to have breakfasts with my friends along the Bosphorus on Sundays, I love to walk alone amid the crowds. I am in love with the chaotic beauty of this city, the ferries, the music, the tales, the sadness, the colors, and the black humor.....

The life you want is a manifestation of self-realization.

I dream of a land of peace where everyone can live in harmony.I dream of a land of joywhere everyone can live without agonyI dream of a land of fairy where everyone can live with beauty.I dream of a land of forgiveness where everyone can live with unity. I dream of a land of tranquilitywhere everyone can live with diversity. I dream of a land of lovewhere we can live in peace as a beloved humanity.

Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity.

Every city, every town, hides beneath a certain amount of glamour that- either intentionally or not- can misdirect the eye or hide something worth finding. Learning to see through those glamours is part of the process of calling any place home.

Don't try to do great thing, but don't forget to do small things with great care and great love.

Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony.

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

The more we grow in faith, the more we grow in love.

Pain changes people for better or for worse. It can change a fledging, naive person to a strong, courageous person or on the other end of the spectrum, sadly however, a devout and pious Christian to a smoking meathead.

Peace is not a result inside us from everything around us. Peace is not submissive nor passive. On the contrary, peace is an overwhelming force which comes from within us, disrespectful of everything around us, a firm coalition of spirit and soul standing against all the unrest that abounds.

There is an end to everything even life.

All that we have seen is something of a vast and intricate and lovely universe. There is no particular theological conclusion that comes out of an exercise such as the one we have just gone through. What is more, when we understand something of the astronomical dynamics, the evolution of worlds, we recognize that worlds are born and worlds die, they have lifetimes just as humans do, and therefore that there is a great deal of suffering and death in the cosmos if there is a great deal of life.

At crossroad, God is our guide post. He points the right path.

The happy life is impossible without finding an answer to the question “why am I here? What am doing here?

When a child is born its sense-organs are brought in contact with the outer world. The waves of sound, heat and light beat upon its feeble body, its sensitive nerve-fibres quiver, the muscles contract and relax in obedience: a gasp, a breath, and in this act a marvelous little engine, of inconceivable delicacy and complexity of construction, unlike any on earth, is hitched to the wheel-work of the Universe.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

Sometimes I think if I could do all the things that I stopped doing, meet all the friends that I left due to time, money and other unavoidable circumstances. Continue all my passions at least once. Then my life would be more justified than today. Then I could be finally at peace at the time I finally leave this world

I feel no grief for being called somethingwhichI am not;in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a goodback rub

The expensive car you bought doesn’t matter, but the way you treated the sales man did.

Thinking, Garraty thought. That’s the day’s business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn’t matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you’re alone.

You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs, towns, got deported, returned home, changed names. Sometimes someone came popping around a corner again, or on the subway then they vanished again. Addresses, phone numbers did not hold. The emptiness Biju felt returned to him over and over, until eventually he made sure not to let friendships sink deep anymore.

Don’t allow your life to become just a dead ritual. Let there be moments, unexplainable.

Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're still here.

It was in the words he didn't say... that I found all the answers to my questions.

Why torture yourself when life will do it for you?

Every day is not a day to master but an adventure to experience.

You speak rather poorly of God when praising Him, or when wanting to praise Him, only during that which you perceive to be your highest of moments. That is many a reason behind unbelief altogether: the failed attempt to control God, to lower His standards to one's own level of understanding in doubt of His foresight and omniscience, His goodness and power. He wants to know if you are faithful enough to praise Him even when, to you, all seems lost.

Spontaneity in the therapeutic work arises when the therapist can allow creative and authentic impulses to arise from moment to moment from the inner being, from the meditative quality within, from the inner emptiness, from the capacity to surrender to life. Then the therapist becomes less of a technician and more of an artist in the therapeutic work. It is then when the therapist and client meets in awareness without any barrier between.

Hope is the whisper of our soul. It is always with you. So never give up. Persist with love.

The best days in the life of any person are the days of joy

Those who don’t want to take risks in life end up been the losers.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lustLike diamonds we are cut with our own dust

To fall in love is easy,but forgetting is required to be crazy.

You can never become great living the life of a time waster.

If the most High grant thee to live, thou shall see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night, and the moon thrice in the day:

There's a certain charm to fragile hearts❤

Actually, what does man live for?” “To think about it. Any other question?” “Yes. Why does he die just when he has done that and has become a bit more sensible?” “Some people die without having become more sensible.” “Don’t evade my question. And don’t start talking about the transmigration of souls.” “I’ll ask you something else first. Lions kill antelopes; spiders flies; foxes chickens; which is the only race in the world that wars on itself uninterruptedly, fighting and killing one another?” “Those are questions for children. The crown of creation, of course, the human being— who invented the words love, kindness, and mercy.” “Good. And who is the only being in Nature that is capable of committing suicide and does it?” “Again the human being— who invented eternity, God, and resurrection.” “Excellent,” Ravic said. “You see of how many contradictions we consist. And you want to know why we die?

For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal.Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.Wins what? is what I’d like to know.

Inner peace is more a question of cultivating perspective, meaning, and wisdom even as life touches you with its pain.

Don’t you know that everything you do in life has consequences?

Hope is not a prediction of the future, it's a declaration of what's possible.

Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to find rest, refreshment, and time for what matters most in life.

By forgetting the Supreme Lord, all the ailments cling to the man.

Many people will fight you, not because you are wrong, but because you are different.

Never underestimate yourself when you do what is right. Never overestimate yourself when you do what is wrong.

The hard part wasn’t breaking up. The hard part is forcing myself to fall out of love with you.

You will be fine,' the fortune teller says. 'There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

When we spend money we lose them forever, when we give them away, we will have them forever.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

Always take the first step. That's where the journey begins.