Life Quotes - Page 81

Reputable scholars might have denied its authenticity, but there are always other scholars who disagree--and people will believe what they want to believe, never mind the evidence. If there is anything life has taught me, it is that there is no idea so absurd that someone will not accept it as truth, and no action so bizarre that it will not be justified in the eyes of a true believer.

There the old Eskimo hunters she had known in her childhood thought the riches of life were intelligence, fearlessness, and love. A man with these gifts was rich and was a great spirit who was admired in the same way that the gussaks admired a man with money and goods.

A beautiful gift does not decrease in value because it is wrapped in ugly paper.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

As concerning the things whereof thou asked me, I will tell thee; for the evil is sown, but the destruction thereof is not yet come.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

The day you were born the angels whispered, "She is going to love him until the day she dies.

To expand our life, be loving and kind.

I believe in unconditional love... I believe in dangerous unselfishness... I believe in daring to achieve... I believe in making mistakes... I believe in helping others... I believe in moving on... I believe in passionate romance... I believe in living the fullness of this human experience... I believe in ME...

Persistence is the pillar of success.

Do not carry the burden of self-judgment. You are forgiven and pardoned

You should always control the strengths you have available to you, never let them languish or, worse, allow others to control them for you.

... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

i was lieing to myself when I thought I was lost, I have never been lost - I just wasn't ready to be found.

Struggle is like a tunnel in the road of life; you have to enter, you have to come out.

The only way to find happiness is to make someone happy.

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.

Amazing grace, amazing life.

It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know.

You can only reach God through His creation

Courage is not always big and bright and loud; sometimes it's as silent and small as true words, a smile when you'd rather weep, or getting up every day and living with quiet dignity while all around you life rages. You cannot truly love, live or exist without courage. Without it you are simply biding time until you die.

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

When you're vested in fear, frightened of failure, yet in the surrender is where you find your success.

I cannot live my life striving only for my own security, I can only feel secure when I see myself useful in other people's life.

Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in some great and enthralling pursuit. Above all, I must beware of all ultimate questions- they are too maddeningly unanswerable- let me eschew philosophy and burn Omar.

The dead person once had a life! This is a misery?

Some people are not meant to be a part of our lives forever. Some people visit our lives for a brief period, not to stay in it, but to show us something that we have been unable to see it ourselves. In the form of a gift, a lesson or a piece of wisdom, they change the course of our life and help us to fulfill our destiny.

For there comes a day on which we will see a mirror of judgement; to gaze not on man, but within ourselves. what cometh on that day in you? truth or despair? love or hate?

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

A hero is someone who enlightened your life, whom you can emulate and adhere.

I'm sure we all have dreams of leaving at some time in our lives, but when we reach the bottom, most of us go running home.

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.

...courage wasn’t something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn’t a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love mattered more.

The ball and chain of creativity has no key

There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.

Flow with the go! If you want to experience the magnificence of the Universe in your life accept where you are, own it, take responsibility for it. Then release the old hurt, guilt, wrongs, mistakes as well as your future worries and stress. Finally in learning to be grateful, you will attract the love, light, prosperity and abundance that you seek and deserve. By emptying your cup, you will prepare your vessel to be truly filled with the treasures that were prepared for you before you were born. Go forth my friend and truly experience your life at its fullest potential! ”- The Hidden Path - Inshan Meahjohn

Living is art.Breathing and heart beating is music.Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.Life is the most intense art of all.

If I were to be honest, I'm probably fifty percent bagel. Okay, fine, sixty percent.

The pursuit of any worthwhile goal requires that you give up something that feels comfortable, secure, and safe in the moment to get you closer to your future dreams.

To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to be precisely defined on this knife edge of improbability…. [Y]ou have to see the hands of a creator who set the parameters to be just so because the creator was interested in something a little more complicated than random particles.

Human kind is on one big power trip that is ripping the sole out of the subtleness and kindness of the human spirit

Everyone has that turning point in their life, whether you are going to make it or not it will come into your life nevertheless.

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.

I sometimes think," said Jason, " that the soul may be a state of mind.

It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry.

Hence, when his name was casually mentioned by neighboring yeomen, the listener said, "Ah, Clym Yeobright: what is he doing now?' When the instinctive question about a person is, What is he doing? it is felt that he will not be found to be, like most of us, doing nothing in particular. There is an indefinite sense that he must be invading some region of singularity , good or bad. The devout home is that he is doing well. The secret faith is that he is making a mess of it...So the subject recurred: if he were making a fortune and a name, so much the better for him, if he were making a tragical figure in the world, so much the better for a narrative

If you want to get positive results you have to refuse to think negative thoughts by substituting them with constructive ones. When you develop a positive attitude toward life, your life will start having a positive result.

Integration happens when all parts of your being are in harmony.

Simplicity is the ultimate beauty of life.

No, I don't have a heart of gold. It's normal - the one that gets hurt by rude words and broken promises.

A leader is he who has a great vision and can inspire others to go along to pursue it with all great passion.

Life is a game of dreams and desires.

What are we before love? But thoughts floating upon a sea. Searching for a shore to explore, to gaze into infinity.

Everything in life is a story just waiting to be written.

The Sodomy sea shall cast out fish, and make a noise in the night, which many have not known: but they shall all hear the voice thereof.

Sharks don’t eat seafood because they like it, but because chicken can’t swim.

Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction.

being born a princess is all right, but behaving like one can be dangerous.

The fire? It has been alive as long as I have. We talk and think together all night long. It’s like a book to me – the only book I ever learned to read; and many an old story it tells me. It’s music, for I should know its voice among a thousand, and there are other voices in its roar. It has its pictures too. You don’t know how many strange faces and different scenes I trace in the red-hot coals. It’s my memory, that fire, and shows me all my life.

With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer.