Life Quotes - Page 123

Only to close these eyesto sleep in the lap of loveand stay there forever.

Be happy about your own life and you'll be amazed at just how much more beautiful you'll find it to be.

You were not called to be a mere church-goer or seat-warmer in the Church of Christ

God calls ignorance the rejection of knowledge, which simply means it is actually a choice to be ignorant.

We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths, sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpose of our lives

When we are smitten, we await love to be “remontant” and to be blooming over and over again”, like remontant roses, with blossoms scenting through all the seasons of life. Passion and patience are to be good allies, though.

To achieve something is better than not achieving.

You cannot change the past, but you can make a difference now

Take a step towards actualizing the very thing you are persuaded for and do not allow injustice to silence your voice.

When I was a little kid I had a very different meaning of life; simple like a cup of tea with sugar and a piece of cake, today the whole world doesn’t give me that life.

You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of.

It was summer here and he wondered if there existed a different season for every corner of this world in this moment and the moments to come. Whether if you traveled fast and far enough you could witness a year passing in a single journey.

May we live impossibly,” Sebby said when he opened his eyes. “Against all odds. May people look at us and wonder how such jewels can sparkle in the sad desert of the world. May we live the impossible life.

Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors.

Faith is the flame that eliminates fear, and faith is the emperor of dreams.

We all have a reason for living I am blessed mine has two eyes a heartbeat and calls me mum.

You made me feel less aloneYou made me feel not quite soDeformed, uninformed and hunchbackedAre you aware wherever you areThat you have just died?

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got.

We ought to celebrate the sacredness of life.

Every individual whom you interact with affects the flow of energy in your body. Some flow with positivity spreading love and compassion, making you happy. Others flow like venom, harming you. The question is what to do with these negative people? Either, you can simply throw them out of your life and not let them affect you anymore. The other way is to have so much positivity and optimism that their negativity is covered up with your energy!

Life is science.

I learned something important that night. You shouldn’t try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you’re supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you’re supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it’s necessary because it’s all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

Life is all about opportunities

We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the existentialist threat of meaninglessness away. We believe because we crave to be seen, to be known, to be understood. We believe because that is the only thing we can do. If there is no one to judge us - to tell us that we are good, and that if we are bad, we can be redeemed - why bother living at all? Why bother being good at all? If there is no one to look after us, and we are truly alone in this universe, what purpose do we have? We have nothing but the present moment, and only temporariness.

There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.

be determined with patience that's it.. game is yours..

I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.

Even with all its positive attributes, capitalism in its imperialistic form is the most treacherous system mankind ever devised. It is driven by a selfishness that has an almost religious underlining to it.

LED lighting has its place: cold, detached, hollow places like office buildings, factories, fast food chains and public schools - places full of humans but no human emotions. LED lighting really belongs in the apathy of the digital age, where science and technology rules over friendship, love and freedom. Incandescent light bulbs have a warm yellow-orange glow like the glow of a nice fireplace, where friends and family might sit and talk together or where children might open Christmas presents, a glow that can project celluloid films and bring back old memories, a glow that can light the text of a paperback novel. Something that beautiful, with that much power, could never last very long in a time as depressing and uncertain as the 21st century.

If I have refused to risk, I have in the self-same decision refused to love. And if indeed I have refused to love, tragically I have refused to live. And when will I realize that that in and of itself is an unacceptable risk.

There is no 'big sin' or 'little sin', it's just sin.

She was like the Sun. At just the right distance, she gave me life, but if I got too close, she would burn me.

Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.

Everyone should think about why certain undesirable situations occur in life

...our memory is enhanced by the emotion attending the event. The more intense the feelings the more accessible to the memory is the event. Few of us live lives so emotionally charged that we can truly, accurately retrieve all of it. ...Often only our crisis events are preserved with strong emotions. For our own survival we can't forget them, and then we too easily forget the good stuff.

You are born every day, until the day you finally die.

It is difficult to stop people from thinking on their own and exceedingly so, to get them to think on their own.

Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.

Life without money seems to be incomplete,but money without life is absolutely useless

The mysteries of life enfold with time.

Be brave and take risks… You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.

Take practical and rational steps in maximizing your time

I clap so that I can hold on to this feeling. I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It’s the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I’ve lost myself to - which is that I’ll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest.

There is a unique Math behind the very notion of life, I seek it.

Four years ago the clocks started turning back. I open my eyes and see nothing. I feel nothing below or above me. I feel the absence of things. The absence of my flesh, my bones, my body, my mind. All that is left is awareness. I see nothing but the absence of colour. It’s not a black darkness. It’s simply nothing. The interior of a black hole. I recall news of a black hole lingering along the edges of our solar system. All that time ago. Four years ago. When the clocks started turning back. I hear nothing. Until there is a something. A small thing. A voice. I listen. There are more voices. The sounds are human. How long has it been since I’ve heard a human? The sounds scratch along my now present attention. They carve into my hearing. They are horrid, wretched things. Voices screaming. Growing loud and desperate. How many voices? Billions. This is the birth of our species. We are born screaming. It’s all we know to do. We have screamed for eternity. Within this empty space.

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

We are all here to live our lives.

August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a person's heart--now that matters. The whole problem with people--"Lily: They don't know what matters and what doesn't...August:...They know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is to choose what matters.

There is only one rule for writing and that is go ahead and start writing.

Healing is your right, your responsibility and the risk you can't afford not to take.

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

Our consciousness is a proof of our existence in this life.It's a chance given to us, to find a way to reach the eternity.

It is in the balancing of your spirituality with your humanity that you will find immeasurable happiness, success, good health, and love.

To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

Being human complicates things.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Your life today is a direct reflection of the decisions you made and the actions you took.

When someone uses the power of their love, they feel strong, courageous, and enthusiastic.

Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.