Life Quotes - Page 245

Sometimes we are asking God to reveal his presence, provisions and purpose in our lives and we pray like we are trying to get God's attention but I think prayer has less with getting God's attention but He getting mine.

If today is not your day, then be happy for this day shall never return. And if today is your day, then be happy now for this day shall never return.

for meobedience to another is the decayof self

When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn’t become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall

There exists a line within every man, a line that frightens even us. When an enemy comes to our very doorstep to endanger wife and child, our Beast is unleashed. The Lionmage had gone feral.

People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us.

Live life with passion from our hearts and believe. Let love be the reason and purpose of life

Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. Roll up that tender air and the plant dies, the colour fades. The earth we walk on is a parched cinder. It is marl we tread and fiery cobbles scorch our feet. By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. ‘Tis waking that kills us.

You have a destiny, you are a human of intrinsic value, you were born to fulfil a mission

Each of us will be able to see God if we can ignite the spiritual light.

It was her eyes. Soft, meadow-shade eyes with frostbitten edges. Every glance casually held gossamer infinity. Every stare revealed inky black abyss with a hint of divinity.

Just because you came to the end of your rope, doesn't mean that you were climbing down.

Never plan to make this world your permanent abode, for it is temporal for all, rather permanent your ideas & purpose here.

Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.

We are all beautiful instruments of God. He created many notes in music so that we would not be stuck playing the same song. Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your journey and play on. Nobody will ever reach ultimate perfection in this lifetime, but trying to achieve it is a full-time job. Start now and don't stop. Make your book of life a musical. Never abandon obligations, but have fun leaving behind a colorful legacy. Never allow anybody to be the composer of your own destiny. Take control of your life, and never allow limitations implanted by society, tell you how your music is supposed to sound — or how your book is supposed to be written.

The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence.

Just feel the joy of life.

Breathing is medicine. I forgot how to breathe, but I’m learning all over again.

The personality of Muhammad, it is most difficult to get into the whole truth of it. Only a glimpse of it I can catch. What a dramatic succession of picturesque scenes! There is Muhammad, the Prophet; there is Muhammad, the Warrior; Muhammad, the Businessman; Muhammad, the Statesman; Muhammad, the Orator; Muhammad, the Reformer; Muhammad, the Refuge of Orphans; Muhammad, the Protector of Slaves; Muhammad, the Emancipator of Women; Muhammad, the Judge; Muhammad, the Saint. All in all these magnificent roles, in all these departments of human activities, he is like a hero.

If success were easy, everybody would do it. Because it’s not, you have the opportunity to distinguish yourself by solving problems. The more problems you solve, the more success you’ll have in life.Then, once you’re successful, you won’t have any more problems, right? Wrong. But if you’re lucky, you’ll have a better class of problems.

Change is a friend to a life with a vision, but an enemy to an aimless person.

Living for your purposes warrants eternal blessings

Trees generously share their fruit.Bees generously share their honey.Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise.

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you.

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.

You have to discover what makes you different in your society.

Wise is the fool who becomes a master at laughter.

Children are God's way of saving us. They give us a second chance at getting it right.

Graciously live life.

Every living object has to change every moment just to live.

You’re not going to always hit a home run in life. You’re going to strike out! You’re going to walk to the dugout of life, frustrated, while spectators chirp your name in judgment. They’re afraid to even get on the field, and you know it. The fact that you get back up there, unafraid, going after that next home run, makes you the person you are.

A child thinks and acts like a child. But when you are grown, you act and think like an adult. Too many people are still childish and immature and fail to realize it's a setback in their lives.

There was this other apocalypse this one time. And, well, I took off. But this time, I don't... I don't know." "Well, what's different?" "Well, I guess I was kinda new to being around humans before. And now I've seen a lot more, gotten to know people, seen what they're capable of and I guess I just realize how amazingly... screwed up they all are. I mean, really, really screwed up in a monumental fashion." "Oh." "And they have no purpose that unites them, so they just drift around, blundering through life until they die. Which they-they know is coming, yet every single one of them is surprised when it happens to them. They're incapable of thinking about what they want beyond the moment. They kill each other, which is clearly insane, and yet, here's the thing. When it's something that really matters, they fight. I mean, they're lame morons for fighting. But they do. They never... They never quit. And so I guess I will keep fighting, too.

Calling it as you see it, should include yourself as well.

When people give you disappointment, don't worry; they are only showing you this- appointment. Just look and see.

Every seed dies before It grows.

Your self-worth is totally different from your net-worth.

Nothing had ever existed between us except the possibility of something, and now even that was over.

Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.

Life without knowing your destiny leads to “rat races”, depression and frustration, and attempt to commit suicide

When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades of our lives in exchange for stacks of paper with scratches and squiggles on them. And when Death calls, how many of us would trade all those pages, all that squandered lifetime-worth of painfully achieved scratches and squiggles, for just one more day, one more fully lived and experienced day? And what price would we writers pay for that one extra day spent with those we ignored while we were locked away scratching and squiggling in our arrogant years of solipsistic isolation?Would we trade all those pages for a single hour? Or all of our books for one real minute?

The human voice is still the most paramount vessel or weapon to use, to uphold justice and to protest against injustice.

Nonetheless, I know where I'm coming from,I've got an idea on where I'm going,And with the way things are going,I'm just glad to be me.

I attribute my success to my deep driving desire and persistence to face the tremendous adversity.

We all have to go. Let us create something which will stay longer or forever.

The pain of the journey should challenge you to make change, the vision of what could be drives you forward.

It's true we all build imaginary prisons for ourselves. Believe that we are trapped behind the invisible bars of the lives we have somehow carelessly constructed for ourselves, despite our youthful promises to ourselves. We see adults who are stagnant and miserable as we grow up. They graffiti the walls behind them with their mistakes and we swear secret oaths that we will heed those warnings. We’re much too clever, we know all the shortcuts and the back alleys.

Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Things are happening out there. Don’t waste your life in wishful thinking. Get out of your cocoon and go make a name for yourself. Life is too short to be wasted in oblivion.

Life turns, and returns death. Where death digs its claws into the grave only to pull out life, as a baby from a womb; and the recycle of air, the recycle of struggles that never achieve satisfaction, in a constant turning world, of an untuned universe.

Every new morning, I write a grateful gratitude for the new grace.

If a man realizes who he is, he cannot lose his peace and gladness because he lives at peace with himself

Everyone in this world perform their ‘duty’. But when one performs the ‘duty’ and he also intimidates [scolds] someone in the process, he will reincarnate in the animal life form. If he carries out his duties with understanding, he will return to the human life form. And if he performs them with humbleness, he will reincarnate into the celestial world.

Everyone has that turning point in their life, whether you are going to make it or not it will come into your life nevertheless.

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

Being able to appreciate who we are and what we have in the now is an easy way to journey through this life.

This is the responsibility we all owe to ourselves– that the purpose of our existence be to positively affect others with our gift and this does not begin when we feel we have become “something”. It begins when we decide to pick our gift and align it with it’s purpose.

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.