Life Quotes - Page 163

Reading is a beautiful paradise.

Believe me, once you have tasted worship—the kind of worship that captures your heart and rivets your full attention on the living Lord—nothing less satisfies. Nothing else even comes close. Once you have tasted true worship, you will never want to play church again.

My sexuality hasn't offended you. Me being me without your permission did.

It's okay to wander.

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right

One day, your light will silence the darkness, and you will be surrounded by the beauty within.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

Like taking a breath, learning was the simple and extraordinary result of being alive.

If you have a house but no home, you are homeless; knowledge but no wisdom, you are imprudent; acquaintances but no friends, you are lonely; money but no happiness, you are poor; and life but no joy, you are lifeless.

What is the one thing that gets you up every morning? The one thing that keeps you going every day, every month, every year? Let me get you started. My one thing is this, ‘I'm one day closer...’ One day closer to a goal, an outcome, or the results I'm after in my life. This is my way of remembering the importance of focusing on the life I desire and living a life of gratitude! So, what’s your one thing…?

We are God’s holy temple. The Spirit dwells in us.

If you ever desire to gain the mastery over any skill and talent, then, you must convert as much time as Sebastian Bach converted.

Love is the soul food!

You can be great in any area of life, just learn to convert time into added value and tangible products.

Insanity is nothing more than ordinary.

I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.

To be a success, be yourself.

If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself – not as a stranger in the world, not as something here unprobational, not as something that has arrived here by fluke - but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.

You will encounter many challenges in life. But you must never be defeated by the challenges.

I didn't wave my daisy. I felt small, the way an ant must feel looking up at a field of wildflowers. I was nothing. I was trapped below flowers, buried under them, while girls like Lizzie Lovett danced overhead. That was life. We all have a place.

Before an empty tomb, we will come to know that Christ our Lord has burst the bands of death and stands forever triumphant over the grave.

We only get one life. Wasting someone’s time is the subtlest form of murder.

The summer I turned eleven, I found out that ghosts are real. Guess it's hard to rest nice and easy in your coffin if you got stuff on your mind. Your soul stays chained to earth instead of zipping up to heaven to sing in one of the angel choirs. Sometimes ghosts show up in the msot peculiar places. Sometimes ghosts fool you. Then you are those ghosts that hang around because we have unfinished business. Business that sinks like old crawfish left in a bucket for a week. That's some nasty smell let me tell you. But the most important thing I learned is that ghosts can help you spill your guts before guilt eats you up and leaves a hole that can't ever be fixed no matter how many patches you try to steam iron across it.

The choices she's made have left her without choice.

When a woman is full of cockiness, I wonder what makes her so insecure. When a man is full of ego, I wonder what he's holding onto.

If you must catch, you must not fear what is being thrown.

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

Calamity shaped a life when, long ago, chance was so cruel.

When you continually tell Life: "there are things that I lack and things that I want", Life will return that exact experience. But when you continually tell Life: "I have all that I need and am free to serve others", Life will return that exact experience: you will have all you need and will be free to serve others.

There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.

Going against the storm requires strength, energy and a will to succeed.

The storm is the optimist’s friend, but the pessimist’s nightmare.

You think this is living? This is eating, nothing else.

Tell me not in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem.

People didn’t know everything then. There were things people had never seen before. Places nobody had ever been. You could make up a story and people would believe it...also maybe it seems like it would be okay not to be perfect. Nobody was perfect back then. Just about everyone was defective, and most people had no choice except to stay that way.

I am a happy healthy soul by divine grace.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

Attachment-abhorrence is the foundation for the worldly life and the foundation for ‘Knowledge’ is a state free of all attachments (vitragta).

When regret and shame fades away, beauty will be in your heart to forever stay.

What we call life...is the combination of the Five Aggregates, a combination of physical and mental energies. These are constantly changing; they do not remain the same for two consecutive moments. Every moment they are born and they die. 'When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.' This, even dow during this life time, every moment we are born and die, but we continue. If we can understand that in this life we can continue without a permanent, unchanging substance like Self or Soul, why can't we understand that those forces themselves can continue without a Self or a Soul behind them after the non-functioning of the body?

Just because I’m breathing, doesn’t mean I’m alive; vice versa.

Try to capture what you can't bear to be without

All death reminds us that nothing is promised, only that life was worth it.

The only difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life each day in May.

We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

Life is not trying to entertain us, it's trying to teach us.

Free yourself from the complexities of your life! A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you.

...All who ever died, live; they are reborn and have no end, nor will there ever be an end. All, save you. For you would not have death. You lost death, you lost life, in order to save yourself. Yourself! Your immortal self! What is it? Who are you?""I am myself. My body will not decay and die-""A living body suffers pain, Cob; a living body grows old; it dies. Death is the price we pay for our life and for all life.""I do not pay it! I can die and in that moment live again! I cannot be killed; I am immortal. I alone am myself forever!""Who are you, then?""The Immortal One.""Say your name.""The King.""Say my name. I told it to you but a minute since. Say my name!""You are not real. You have no name. Only I exist.""You exist: without name, without form. You cannot see the light of day; you cannot see the dark. You sold the green earth and the sun and stars to save yourself. But you have no self. All that which you sold, that is yourself. You have given everything for nothing. And so now you seek to draw your world to you, all that light and life you lost, to fill up your nothingness. But it cannot be filled. Not all the songs of earth, not all the stars of heaven, could fill your emptiness.

Everyone has a story to tell. But the story of your life is only yours and it's uniqueness makes it a real one.

The kind of life you live is not only determined by the level of education you attained. It's defined by the kind of love you give to God in whom you believe!

Your value depends on how much love you gave away, not on how much money you have accumulated.

True love comes from the heart, it is very simple and nonjudgmental.

You are that blue-white diamond, so treat yourself like a Tiffany.

What has life given me? The beginning is fire, the end is a heap of ashes, and between the end and the beginning lies all the pain in the world.

To every corner of the planet, to the young and old, to all humanity. I see your beauty. I really do.

To enjoy the beauty of life, live in the moment, not in the past or future.

When you have a purpose in life it becomes the light to show you the path toward your destination.

YOU ARE JUSTYou are not just for the right or left,but for what is right over the wrong.You are not just rich or poor,but always wealthy in the mind and heart.You are not perfect, but flawed.You are flawed, but you are just.You may just be conscious human,but you are also a magnificentreflection of God.

My life my selfie!

I am not here, I am somewhere else, my body is here but mind is in the sky