Life Quotes - Page 95

In the wilderness, we experience the faithfulness of God.

We can learn a lot from animals, if we're prepared to accept that they may just know more about life than what we do.

If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?

Schedule happy experiences to displace unhappy memories.

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

Life is a constant build up and release of tension. If we go too far in either direction bad things happen.

Life Is ‘Simple’ By Nature...The deeper you try to study, the more you complicate it.Just believe in it’s simplicity & it shall show you it is far too Simple actually!

Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own.

Life is funny, when you are young you want to be older and those that are older wish to be younger.

I am going to look at the stars. They are so far away, and their light takes so long to reach us. All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.

The wealth of time is the only wealth that is more valuable than human resources.

You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went.

Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.

My heart is the refuge where you will find everlasting love.

Any education that doesn't allow you to think freely is not an education but a prison.

Through photography and image I have been afforded the privilege of sharing the stories and myths of people's lives with others. The process for me became self-revelatory. It was a process of soul-making, something all humans are engaged in, no matter their endeavor. I saw a part of myself in each person I photographed. I came to realize, through the alchemical process of living, that each life is important, no matter how little that life seems to offer.

Joy is innermost peace.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of.

Without dreams, the future will remain mediocre. Stay inspired though your dreams.

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

You must not end your life because you failed an examination. Failing an examination or making a mistake does not make you a failure at life. The context of life is broader than that.

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing?

The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.

I would much rather have a life filled with magic than one filled with the mundane.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

The truth is, it's really only okay to be yourself if that self is within an accepted range of 'normal'.

Living the life I wanted was my ultimate responsibility. Learning to forgive was my ultimate act of self-love.

You won’t fail! That’s the fear in you lying to you. You will succeed! That’s why fear is trying so hard to stop you. I encourage you to take that first step. Walk into your purpose and do what you were born to do. Have faith in yourself. Have courage to move forward doubting NOTHING. Doubt has no place and serves no purpose. Give yourself a chance to uncover all of the greatness that’s within you!

I am always saddened by the death of a good person. It is from this sadness that a feeling of gratitude emerges. I feel honored to have known them and blessed that their passing serves as a reminder to me that my time on this beautiful earth is limited and that I should seize the opportunity I have to forgive, share, explore, and love. I can think of no greater way to honor the deceased than to live this way.

All products come from the worth of time

And I sat there at the patio,while the whole of universe,was getting engulfed,in the whitest whiteness of snow.Down, near my rough paw,is soft snow,mannering a fidgeting embryo.I monitored the snow that plunged,on the soil of my backyard,and realized it melting fast.Was that the temperature or,my eyes on it overcast?While I think of this melted exalt,I am obliged to ask,What ought happens to the thoughts?Where do they get tossed?When they are forgot?Scorched?Scoffed?Deformed? Unadorned?

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can.

Life is meant to be remarkable. . let go and let it be!

A New York plate that said you die. (Dark City Lights)

To improve quality of life, to evolve into a better version of ourselves, to pause in recognition of blessings with only our name on the tag, to dance in graitutde, to embrance with abandon, to give without receiving, to seek the face of God ... all this and more is why we exisit.

Those who’ve left their bootprints in the trenches are those who value human life most. They get unwanted glimpses into the savage nature we really have underneath all the expensive clothes and moisturized skin. This of course, rules out the politicians, feminists, and liberals who are far too cozy hiding behind their daddies’ wallets and sophomoric mentalities as those who feign having tasted the true consequence of a single blood-drop darkening the sand.

We all struggle in some way or another. So it's on us to work hard, and strive towards a better and healthy life.

Life becomes so unfair when you don't get what others do. But don't worry, God has decided something better for you.

One dies the way he lives.

What is this life so full of care,We don't have time to stand and stare.

I love the serenity as a tree loves its calmness.

Words are my weapons. They might kill or cure the readers, that’s out of my control.

Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.

I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago

In this vast universe when I was getting lost, you made me infinite with infinite love.

God calls us to live lives of purity.

Despite what you think you know, sometimes your plans may be interrupted. Because you were designed for a purpose. You are on a mission to achieve greatness. No matter what obstacles lie in your path, you will reach your destination. Remember God's grace is sufficient.

Different views are essential for progress

Think with your eyes open.

Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.

So grateful for those who truly love me... they hear everything I don't say.

As artists, we create the beautyWe are too afraid to live outAnd search, but always fall just shyOf finding what life is about.

People believe that Noah's Ark is a legend when we are already apart of this legend, look around what do you see?

One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants.Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging.Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary.-Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life

If your belief system, mission, values and attitude are poisoned or contaminated, then expect whatever you enjoy and perceive as success to be short-lived.

When he finally fell asleep, his dreams contained no stories at all, but only the hard stones of thoughts: the unimaginably unlikely coincidence of being alive at the same time as the love of your life, the frequency with which a person was expected to bear the body and the burden of someone else, the idiocy of thinking that kindness can protect the person who is kind, and worst of all, the bottomless pit of a truth that he had suddenly, sickeningly seen: that the world to come that his parents had always talked about was not an afterlife at all, but simply this world, to come--the future world, your own future, that you were creating for yourself with every choice you made in it.

Adventure begins when something goes wrong

life is like a teabag; you end up dead, replaced and forgotten.