Life Quotes - Page 219

To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death—however “humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have. I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my life. I was busy.

It's not your wallet or purse that has a direct line with God.It's your heart!

You are my cry, you're my tears, you're my joy, you're my heart and love, only I don't know who am I.

There shall be confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruate women shall bring forth monsters:

The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.

He hid in the crowd, she hid in herself.

Let the ‘why not’ philosophy be your life principle!

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.

A sunset will color your dreams.And a sunrise will color your smile.It's all God asks.

Always choose love

No one here to count your Qualities, but everyone is good enough to point out your Mistakes.

You need to realize there will always be beliefs that seek to limit and others that seek to stretch you to your highest potential. Just because you cannot see or do something, does not mean it is not there or cannot be done.

Your life is a personal lesson. For everyone else it is a loud example.

Never allow anyone to take advantage of you in no shape form or fashion. People get into relationships for different reasons. And, many are often looking for something in return and it mostly relates to security. Don't unite with any person who only wants to use your possessions and wealth to elevate themselves to the next level. You ought to value yourself much more than that. Each person in a relationship should be able to contribute wholly and completely.

As the master builder of your own life, build an open space, with room for your soul to breath, and be free.

My message for all my readers is: Don't believe in those who claim that youth is a passing disease you just have to get rid of. Don't believe, that maturity is a goal and an asset to go after. Nothing will ever be ready, that is what makes life interesting. Read!

I get it! Something painful happens and that hate flares within and sticks around. Hate keeps the pain; forgiveness let's it go. Hate breeds poison, forgiveness breeds peace. When you chain yourself to hate, you chain yourself to pain.

If you kick a lion when it is down, God help you when it gets up.

You don’t choose the music your enemies play, but you choose which songs you dance to.

Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.

I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.

How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifice an innocent person? And how do you know what the greater good really is?

I guess somethings turned out too sad even to be explained with a bases-loaded strikeout.

After deciding the territory you want to rule over, the next thing you must do is to invest your time into developing yourself and becoming the best in that territory.

If you make lots of little changes to your lifestyle, you’ll need to make time to have some fun too, otherwise life can get a little boring.

You can choose to say, "Good Morning God" or "Good God, morning!

Everyone should have a place in your heart, but only a special few should have a place in your life.

An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify animal use, however “humane” it may be; (2) rejects welfare campaigns that seek more “humane” exploitation, or single-issue campaigns that seek to portray one form of animal exploitation as morally worse than other forms of animal exploitation (e.g., a campaign that seeks to distinguish fur from wool or leather); and (3) regards veganism, or the complete rejection of the consumption or use of any animal products, as a moral baseline. An abolitionist regards creative, nonviolent vegan education as the primary form of activism, because she understands that the paradigm will not shift until we address demand and educate people to stop thinking of animals as things we eat, wear, or use as our resources.

Record what you can, pursue your passions, connect with the world, fight the good fight, defy evil, shine incandescently as best you can. And it doesn't matter what field it's in but, it does matter that we leave something that accumulates over time.

Raising your children to love and serve Jesus is fulfilling one of God’s highest callings upon your life.

We are hell different but vanity keeps us stuck.

Whilst your memory is as sharp as the most reliable computer, it is always wiser to write things down. Pre-meditation helps the refining process, taking out the undesirable elements from a dream or vision, even mounting the courage to face and overcome challenges before they appear in reality.

He used to hide his true self because he feared people wouldn’t like him, or would judge him for being too much this and not enough that. He found himself acting like everyone else, even though his heart wanted to express itself in ways that felt different than much of what he was seeing in the world. His heart grew louder, and he longed to taste a different kind of freedom, one his mind had worked hard to contain in order to keep him feeling safe. But that safety came with a price: his authenticity. Then it occurred to him, some people would judge him no matter who he was or what he did. And that if he was going to be judged anyway, he may as well live his life as authentically as possible and at least be judged for his truth. He also knew some people would love him no matter who he was or what he did, and how much better it would feel to be loved for being real.

Cultivate and nurture being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. Remembering that In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

Truth begets knowledge and knowledge begets power.

Temptation goes both ways. Sometimes, you can be tempted to live a half life because it pleases someone else. Don't ever live in such a way that your heart splits into two souls. You might find yourself sinning for the rest of your life because you don't want to really be in that situation, but you don't want to hurt the kids. That is a hell that your children will pick up on soon enough. Staying for the kids is possible, but it takes two people to agree that choice is their lifestyle, not one. Otherwise, you hold another person captive because of your fear of stating the obvious-- you are not in love with them.

The ostrich-approach of burying your head in the sand, when confronting your areas of weakness, becomes a self-set trigger for failure.

Some things will go wrong for each of us, the most important thing is your attitude in that circumstance

Speak with your heart when you speak love.

Life teaches us the right path is rarely the easy one.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go....

When a human being is born the first thing he does is crying.. The rest of his life he'll spend discovering why...

The young man murmured in his sleep and said, “Dear Sparrow,” and Sparrow felt, for the first time, how the purest joy could be a heaviness.

The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

If you possess the basic necessities in life, there is absolutely no reason for you to feel any sorrows. For there is someone praying to be in your place.

Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.

We are saved only by grace through faith.

Its all about perception in life, For some One minus One = One & for some its Zero.That's the only difference.

The love between friends could create life.

Every peak and valley of your life has led you to deeper understanding and, ultimately, growing compassion.

When we do things with love, we gain the knowledge and wisdom and do it better.

My mother was strong, in all the ways I was weak. She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you will never know.

Think about death being inevitable, and unpredictable, exempt from the law of averages. Everyone has a turn, and no one knows when.

There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.

Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving... Always moving on.