Life Quotes - Page 126

The heights to which we aspire - often prove not as lofty as those that transpire.

No true love is possible, Lewis demonstrates, until we abandon our claims, our rights, our grievances. Until then we will be trapped in the obscurity of our heart's mixed motives, our will to possess, to control, to be our own gods.

it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.

Let your life speak volumes holding your words accountable, lest you become just a talking head.

Justice is about harmony... revenge is about you making yourself feel better.

Whoever is willing to sacrifice his life for God will always be under God’s protection

The flames of their passion illuminated the dimly lit room, filling it with a blazing fire which was either brilliantly beautiful or dangerously violent.

You don’t need them. It’s that simple. But for some reason it’s complex. It’s difficult. It’s dangerous. We can’t seem to fathom it.

My alone doesn't always feel good, but I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude

More I get to know people, the more I tend to end up odd.

People to be stronger they must have taste from everywhere the stuff, what's the feeling your father to suicide, what's the feeling to see people to die from real nature or from disease(s). That's real life!

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

Inception. Invention. Innovation.

When you don't see nothing wrong in anything you do, then you are doing everything wrong.

You must continue to press your way to glory

Dare to be you.

The worst is behind you. Lock it up in a deep dungeon and throw away the key. You could live through what you felt were your worst moments. Now hold your head high, wear that smile you had forgotten existed and show the world the new ‘you’.

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Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.

The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.

Motivation ignites a flame of fire within our spirit.

I used to hold grudges until I realized that most people are narcissistic and their actions are driven by an unhealthy self-interest and not maliciousness towards me.

A single change can sometimes change your entire life

For a thinking man, the main thing is to develop that person within

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive.

No matter our sins or our sufferings, we are not isolated or abandoned. Christ is there for us, in good times and bad, and if we know how to follow Him, how to walk in His footsteps, then the road home doesn’t seem quite so treacherous or impossible to scale.

The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welfare reforms do not result in providing significantly greater protection for animal interests; in fact, most of the time, animal welfare reforms do nothing more than make animal exploitation more economically productive by focusing on practices, such as gestation crates, the electrical stunning of chickens, or veal crates, that are economically inefficient in any event. Welfare reforms make animal exploitation more profitable by eliminating practices that are economically vulnerable. For the most part, those changes would happen anyway and in the absence of animal welfare campaigns precisely because they do rectify inefficiencies in the production process. And welfare reforms make the public more comfortable about animal exploitation. The “happy” meat/animal products movement is clear proof of that. We would never advocate for “humane” or "happy” human slavery, rape, genocide, etc. So, if we believe that animals matter morally and that they have an interest not only in not suffering but in continuing to exist, we should not be putting our time and energy into advocating for “humane” or “happy” animal exploitation.

Start with yourself, strive for continuous improvement, perfection doesn't happen right away

First, the thoughts are chosen,then the prayers are spoken. The candles are lit,then the plea is submitted. But soon after you move away,there is wax;melting, adulterating and braiding-a new constellation up on your blanks.

Hope is a conscious mission. Dream is an unconscious vision.

I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.

The main purpose of a church is to bring relevance to people and make sure everyone discovers their calling

The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.

Silence is the music of the heart.

When I reach the end of one row, I continue straight on away from the barn and the farm and the road. I walk until I come to a pile of hay bales and plop myself down. The sun is bright and the air is sharp. In the distance I hear the lowing of cows. It's so peaceful here."Merry Christmas, " I whisper to myself. "Merry Christmas, Nate.

They should love you, just as you are. Parents should love their kids, right?" "You'd think so.

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With positive mind-set, you can graciously withstand the uncertainties of life.

The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

The Sewing Machine CharmTo A Life Bound by Family, The Thread That Ties Us All Together

Dreams are epitome of life.

Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours.

Seriously, people have never called or told me that I was an unproposed guy or the lame loader or the douchebag’s dude, but it was me who felt it safe and secure after I named to myself, wondering what negatives I would feel if people name it. Same thing happens with us everywhere in life.

There was something about other people's grief that was so exposing, so personal, that she felt she shouldn't be looking.

Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood.

Man’s life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being—not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement—not survival at any price, since there’s only one price that pays for man’s survival: reason.

For he says, "In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation. 2 Corinthians 6:2

May the Creator guide you in unfamiliar path.

Life is a gift. Regard it as such. Return the blessing through each life you touch. Every seed planted, springs forth new birth. Allow your bouquet to cover the earth.

How you ever gonna reach the starsIf you never get off the ground?

He lived like a devil and died like a saint

I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world's a stage and I'm a lousy actor!

If you suffer lingering doubts; if the consolation you cling to is ‘it will probably be okay,’ then run the other way because what you’re contemplating is not a good choice.

Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.

I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys, moments, and the hues of the sunlight on many tones of skin; I am breathing in the same air that was exhaled by many before me. The air that bore them life. And so how can I ever say that I am alone?

If you can only do one thing today, choose to help someone in need. There are many who are less fortunate. Take some time to lend a helping hand. You will be surprised by how much you will uplift their spirit.