Life Quotes - Page 146

To be a leader, you have to lead yourself first.

I am vulnerability under scarred skin. Numbness crawling behind wine soaked lips. A cocoon of grief battling a chest full of hushed breaths, longing to escape the mod-podge of memories, that journal where I've been. Layer after layer they are sealed upon my person, encapsulating time in a vessel that has sailed one too many shores.

There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality.

We came to the world with love and hopeWe are the creation of hope, faith and love.

Everything happened to find the balance of Life.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

Life is magical for a lover.

We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them.

Death moved in the night, in search for blood, and when it found Life, it passed on by, like a cloud that moves by the face of the moon. When he found those dead without the red, he took the life before them born first, and the mourning emptied itself till the morning.

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need.

There is no cure for madness except the madness as the cure.

What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.

You are the prisoner, the prison and the prison keeper. Only you hold the key to your freedom.

God lives in the Now. There is always peace in the present moment.

Empowerment is the ability to refine, improve, and enhance your life without co-dependency.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

Be a team player, not a bandwagon jumper.

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

The mistakes of the past are valuable lessons for the future.

Our hearts and imaginations need to dance and play if we are to live awake

God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.

I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed. His victims had always loved him. And I had always loved him, hadn't I, no matter what happened, and how strong could love grow if you had eternity to nourish it, and it took only these few moments in time to renew its momentum, its heat?-Lestat

The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.

Life ought to be live with great optimism.

Only you can succeed in converting your values into product can you win the battle against time

Life is like an Autumn short but colourful.

Success is mainly the result of hard work.

No matter how big or small the service is, Always express your Thanks to the person who served you.

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves.

I did not find my way out of the darkness until I admitted I was lost.

There is no real light but just small sparks of happiness we should photograph to contain. But if we stop to photograph, we can’t enjoy them, the flash overexposes them and they disappear.

Never let a day be your control factor

We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.

Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment--discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level.

Worrying about things that haven’t happened yet is like riding on the hood of your car—what’s the point?

The end of this life is not the end of life.

Your calling is you unique area of expertise

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.

Release-For yearsthey told you tosit.Stay.Now they open the doorand tell you toget up.Leave.Where do you gowith no oneto show youthe way?

O Lord, Thy Word, heals my wounds.O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope. O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit.O Lord, Thy Word, revive my soul.

Be great!

It takes courage and maturity to realise your own story.

Be unwilling to lose.

Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. Knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That’s what makes us humans.

For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.

Expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.become a strangerTo need of pityOr, if compassion be freelyGiven outTake only enoughStop short of urge to pleadThen purge away the need.Wish for nothing largerThan your own small heartOr greater than a star;Tame wild disappointmentWith caress unmoved and coldMake of it a parkaFor your soul.Discover the reason whySo tiny human midgetExists at allSo scared unwiseBut expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.

People go entire lives without figuring out exactly what they want from life. You already have it, and the future you and your dad have planned out for you in going to take it away from you.

How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress.

He remembered the darkness and despair she'd suffered during her long years as a prisoner, but he also recalled the deep, unquenchable joy she took from the world around her; and he knew that given the choice, Wilamena would suffer all she had and more rather than sacrifice one day of being alive.It was just as his father had said. She chose life, all of it.

Your life is your greatest asset.

Understand one thing very clearly. Because all this: your time, this world, your life in it and all of those opportunities, they have a deadline.

Without climbing the mountain of hardship, one may not know the joy of hope.

The real education is the reality of how well you live life.

One thing is needful and that is converting your time into fulfilling your purpose on the earth.

When you are in a fix, often the fix is in you.

You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.