Life Quotes - Page 145

We often lose ourselves to where we think we should be, rather than celebrate where we already are.

The Strength of life is as strong as the strength of the hair follicle.

Every moment, with every heartbeat, we change, but still we fear the change.

Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any hope of escaping it, I reasoned, was to know my own strength, to defy life by surviving it.

A sequence of random events isn't really random at all. It's just made to look that way so it will ensnare the unwary.

If ever you feel lost, terrified, alone, emotionally and physically drained...when you feel like depression has overpowered you, and that the world itself, has devoured you...just remember that you are not alone, you are loved, you are a beautiful story waiting to be told.” -Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found (Vol. #1)

As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.

I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you've died a couple of thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand.

The first duty of a man is to love himself. When someone loves himself, he is loving the universe. This universe is existing because of you.

I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove you under, for all those times, mean on gin, you rammed words into my belly. (p. 52)

Life is not a sport. Life is not math. There is no final end goal and there is no right answer. Just because your truth does not match someone else's truth does not make either of you wrong. Life is not a zero sum game. If I am right, that does not make you wrong. If you are right, that does not make me wrong either. A jar of vinegar can sit in a cupboard beside a box of baking soda peacefully, and we can allow those who disagree with us to exist alongside us without reacting to them. There is nothing to prove. There is enough room in the world for all of us.

I think people get lost in becoming someone other then themselves when they spend too much time in the presence of those who don't bring out the best in them.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

No matter how hard it is to see kid tears, grown-up tears are worse to watch.

Decorate your inner dreams with love, light and laughter

If you could realize that everything is made out of time, then you can convert your free time into anything you want.

Between hope and despair treads a life without love!

Review how you spend your money and time across all areas of your life, and judge for yourself whether your investment in your mind is right for the future you want.

In retrospect we can only be thankful to all the mistakes that we made and to all the lessons that we learned from them!

Dance is medicine. Movement is potent. Empower yourself with it today.

A life without books is empty.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

There are just some kind of men who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

I am loving and joyful because I think I am.

Pain was as much a part of this life as the summer and the winter and the rain, and there was no greater asshole than the one who believed you can cure it.

I have to hurt other people in order to get what I want, I don’t have a choice but to. In life, you gotta do the right things for the wrong reasons. Or the wrong things for the right reasons.

Life is joyful; life is wonderful.Life is love's shrine.When you're my moon, I am your star. Oh my eternal valentine.

The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.

An effective life is a selfless one

Greatness always indicates simplicity. Wisdom always results from curiosity.

When that bastard calls back, you tell him he’s won this round. I’ll marry him. But I don’t take well to being blackmailed, and tell him I intend to spend the rest of my life making him miserable, got that?

Invest in yourself by discovering your gift

E@t ur food a$ ur medicine$,otherwise u hav 2 e@t medicine$ a$ ur food".

Don't think because you can't affect something at a great level that God can't use you in a great way. David didn't even train one day with the armies but He won the war. He didn't even have a weapon but he killed a giant.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

What they don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you're eleven, you're also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one.

Jealousy is a general human behavior, Until it's not changed.

Medicine is as close to love as it is to science, and its relationships matter even at the edge of life itself.

I look for beauty every day and find it everywhere. My bliss in enhanced!

Empty Spaces I wanted to feel less.To not be burdened by emotion,To not feel sadness,To not know loss.I envied the inanimate,The trees that stand proudly in winter,Not missing their leaves.I wanted to be weightless,To not experience limitation.I didn’t want time to pass,The blur of days, months, years.It moved too quickly,I wanted to grasp on,Hold it.It eluded me,Intangible,Like light.I wanted to preserve life before you were gone.I didn’t want to know grief.But the pain kept me connected.It meant that I loved you,It meant that I would always be a little broken,It meant that our love filled all of the empty spaces.It meant that you would be with me... forever.

Murder can sometimes seem justified, but it is murder all the same. You are truthful and clear-minded--face the truth, mademoiselle! Your friend died in the last resort, because she had not the courage to live. We may sympathize with her. We may pity her. But the fact remains--the act was hers--not another.

Hear about the hidden time. Some think the hidden time is yet to come. The Kingdom of God does not come by Observation. It is hidden in the inner dimension.

Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully.

What are you working towards everyday besides death?

To be thankful for just being alive...To survive means to win... That only applies to animals, but I'm a human being!

Listen to me, attend me!And I will breathe into thee a soul,And thou shalt live for ever.

Enthusiasm is the key but action opens the door.

Happiness in something you need to search for, It comes from inside. You can pull it out from inside by satisfaction and acceptance.

Life is an all-encompassing art gallery. From the seasons ushering in change to the way a body moves during dance from the way one smile paints another to the waddle of a street rat – every facet of life is art in motion. Every time a bird takes flight from a branch the scene changes each time the winds shift brings new perspective.

We are a god- fearing nation of forgivers. You may have bombed our hotels & killed our people, we will still not hang you. If we cannot give life, who are we to take one? No matter how heinous the crime, we do not judge. We live & let live.

Take time to sense the abundance we have, as we don't have an abundance of time.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth—and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man’s mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity.

We’d all agreed that we’d outgrown jumping rope, but Shady had given me such a nice gift of a skipping rope, and when there’s nothing better to do, I guess you go back to what once felt good.

Fill your heart with kindness and forgiveness, there will be no stress, anger, or bitterness.

You have to bring relevance to people before teaching them the ways of Christ

You must learn focus and concentration for you to enjoy solitude.

Whatever you do today, impacts your historicity.