Life Quotes - Page 69

Life is like a long note; it persists without variance, without wavering. There is no cessation in sound or pause in tempo. It continues on, and we must master it or it will master us.

Copy cats may seem good at what they are doing, but they will never find a spot at the top.

History was not simply a catalogue of the dead and buried and benighted, but rather a vast new world to be pioneered; ...if you approached the past generously, so to speak—its people as humans, not facts, as modern in their time as we were in ours, who thought and felt as we do, the dead would live again, our equals, not our old-fashioned, hopelessly unenlightened, and backward inferiors. Humanity, to be fully known, had to be seen as changeless as well as ever changing.

Thanks to a lifetime of brainwashing by Disney and Lifetime and Hallmark, she naively believes glimpsing God during an epic fuck somehow translates into some kind of happily ever after with her Prince Charming.

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.

I'm not sure why, but when a person expects something to last forever, they don't notice the little things. It's only when the clock is ticking all those little things add up and become bigger.

Focus on how far you have come in liferather than looking at the accomplishments of others.

Change becomes a waste for those who do not desire to learn from it. It pushes us to bring out our personal best. It makes us realize that we are uniquely different with the capabilities to grow and shine brightly.

Some things are better 'left' as they are...unresolved but evolving...

Blessed are you, who faced many adversities. You will be strengthen and soften.

Life is the only art that we are required to practise without preparation and without being allowed the preliminary trials the failures and botches that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.

When you enjoy the little beauties in and around you, it costs you nothing.

It's not wise to seek the revenge and forget to love.

In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

It's when you take somebody's innocence that you also take their life.

That's what is was to be young — to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

Music moves the body, soul and spirit to the bliss.

Your power and brilliance is the the most awesome force life could muster.

Inside every poor creature was a sense of some other happy destiny, a destiny that was necessary and inevitable -why, then, did they find their lives such a burden and why were they always waiting for something?

If you try to do a task at your odd hours, you will waste so much time only to find out that you did a poor job after all.

Seals:The Five Cosmic Seals are five occult Level 333, 666, 999, 1330 and 003 operating 400,000 minuet mystical degrees.

Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.

You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.

[Letter to William Ward, 11 July 1878]Dear Boy, Why don’t you write to me? I don’t know what has become of you.As for me I am ruined. The law suit is going against me and I am afraid I will have to pay costs, which means leaving Oxford and doing some horrid work to earn bread. The world is too much for me.However, I have seen Greece and had some golden days of youth. I go back to Oxford immediately for viva voce and then think of rowing up the river to town with Frank Miles. Will you come? YoursOscar

There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves.

Most people live lives that are full of mysteries, lives whose ultimate purpose we may never really understand. But for the sake of serenity, we must believe in life’s nobleness.

All evil is good become cancerous.

For most of us free-thinking, wild hearts, our relationship with God or the Universe will go through peaks and valleys – transforming into new concepts and beliefs, completely disappearing, at times, only then to instantly explode back into existence by something even as small as a sunset!

In India everything has a use and a value.

You never know what people live through. Be kind to all people.

Always choose love

There will be a time when love is beautiful and passionate and nothing else will exist but you and the person you love, and a time when love hurts so badly that you will wish you wouldn't wake up. I say this. Always, always, always approach love with the heart of the angel you were born with.

Brotherly love should be our number one principle as believers

Love, as life, is a journey. Finding true love for the ever after is an amazing achievement.

Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present and the past as well . What was right, and what was wrong? Just learning how to dress was a riddle.

Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart.

You will never be missing to yourself and all you can do is delay, delay, delay and the delaying must be good enough for you and you must find a way to be fine with the delay because it is your whole life and the minute you really go missing is the minute you can no longer miss.

Finding meaning for life is simply coming into significance because you have been able to accomplish and fulfill your purpose.

The greatest achievement is sacred-self-victory.

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...

It’s less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can’t stop from happening.

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

That is life... to begin again when everything is lost!

So because you are converting it, you are reproducing your life that way.

Joyful peace pervades my being for all time.

Love awakens spirit of being.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

The best way of creating motivation is to do something. If you take action, motivation will follow

You cannot marry your past without divorcing your future.

Life runs on with bag pack of problems tackle them swiftly.

It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.

A change of attitude changes everything.A bad attitude never leads to a good life.

Live like you want to, not how anyone else wants you to.

fire is beautifuland we know that if we gettoo close it will kill usbut what does that matterit is better to be happy for a momentand be burned up with beautythan to live a long timeand be bored all the while

Life is not about reasons, explanations, interpretations, or solutions. It's all about actions and reactions.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

For the next two weeks, the world and all other issues would be omitted. We were two people alone in a hospital room. We allowed no visitors. We had two weeks of near-silence with each other and my increasing helplessness. I tended to tangle the IV and misplace the oxygen tube. As I started to say earlier, I could feel no sensible interest in the future. The moments became extraordinarily dimensionless - not without value but flat and a great deal emptier. When you learn you're fatally ill, time becomes very confusing, perhaps uninteresting, pedestrian. But my not caring if I lived or died hurt Ellen. And I was grateful that I could indulge my cowardice toward death in terms of living for her.

A gift freely given,I did not ask to be in this state: living.

Pray and read your Bible daily. God has all the answers you seek

She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass.