Life Quotes - Page 78

.you can have little and be rich..

To bury something, it is often considered, either means the end of something or the passing on into the realm of the earth or the sky, only the dead could ever know. But it is not only the dead that we bury. We bury objects, memories, thoughts and emotions among other things. Contrary to popular belief burying something is not the end of it because even though it is suppressed beneath layers of earth or self control, the dead and buried don’t always remain that way and that is where the stories come from, the stories that haunt us for the rest of our no longer carefree lives.

Measure your life by how much of your time you have converted.

There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.

I must go on living. And, though itmay be childish of me, I can't go on insimple compliance. From now on I muststruggle with the world. I thought thatMother might well be the last of thosewho can end their lives beautifully andsadly, struggling with no one, neitherhating nor betraying anyone. In theworld to come there will be no room forsuch people. The dying are beautiful,but to live, to survive – those thingssomehow seem hideous andcontaminated with blood.

I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs...

Faith is the leverage we need to liberate us from the shackles of unbelief.

It's well known that love has power but I want to find out how much.

Love and learn from everyone,but follow your heart,and your inner conviction.

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.

I don’t regret anything I was before because I still am.I only regret not having loved you.Put your hands in mineAnd let’s be quiet, surrounded by life.

Winning and losing was suddenly elevated to be about things that had no score and no teams and no uniforms; just one player at a time dealing with his life, his own struggle, his own triumph and torment.

I don't think those who die are any better than those who stay alive. They just look better. They can't mess anything up anymore.

In life you hoped to do what you could but mostly you did what you were told and that was the end of it.

Points of views that are expressed on Twitter don’t intend to offend, but rather defend and open the conversation up to everyone so that no one has to pretend.

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.

Sean was young, vibrant, capable. Life hadn't even begun to digest his hope.

A moment is not complete until you realise it is fleeting...

Life is hope.

Don’t waste your time dying over the past, spend it living in the present.

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life--that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

To awaken quite alone in a strange parallel universe is the priceless moment to a time traveler!

Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.

There's difference between being dead and dying. We're all dying. Some of us die for ninety years, and some of us die for nineteen. But each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death. Everyone. So living and dying are actually different words for the same thing, if you think about it.

The story you live is the ripple you leave.

Your environment should be your time marker

Life is temporal.Time is fleeting.God is permanent.Eternity is enduring.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

I’m starting to get used to this feeling of not caring about anything.

As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity.

Those who are not working toward a better life and those who do not take responsibility for their destinies do not have victories

Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.

to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit for gills than lungs;when grief weights you like your own fleshonly more of it, an obesity of grief,you think, How can a body withstand this?Then you hold life like a facebetween your palms, a plain face,no charming smile, no violet eyes,and you say, yes, I will take youI will love you, again.

Tragedy of life: we want to possess more material wealth, but fail to enjoy the spiritual riches.

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

In your diary, you quoted old Jiko saying something about not-knowing, how not-knowing is the most intimate way, or did I just dream that?Anyway, I've been thinking about this a lot, and I think maybe it's true, even though I don't really like uncertainty. I'd much rather 'know', but then again, not-knowing keeps all the possibilities open. It keeps all the worlds alive.

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.

Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.

The path to success lies in finding something you have a passion for, care deeply about, and are willing to apply all of your energy and focus to.

We ought to walk with God and not for God.

It’s been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

Life can be moulded to suit individual desires.

Positive life, positive deed.

We can not just live any how. There are consequences for every action, where evil or good.

Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy

If you fall for someone, make sure they’re there to catch you.

His life-experiences, and reflections upon them, led Y to believe that the most difficult challenge in life was how to be kind, yet strong. ‘To be kind is not enough,’ he would say. ‘You have to be strong to give to others, and strong to withstand life’s fluctuating fortunes.

The road may be rough, the journey may be tough and the experience may be bitter, but they are stepping stones to our future thrones.

Those who complain never love, those who love, never complain.

Patience! It is not how quickly you run, but how slowly.

Think of what you desire out of life.

To stop being a victim, you have to stop thinking like a victim.

It is better to purposefully spend time with people talking about things that could improve them or talk about things that could improve me than to just waste time discussing irrelevant things.

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

You can't write a poem until you live.

Without love, life will be a great mistake.

The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

There's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.