Life Quotes - Page 257

Breathing seemed harder in the cemetery, and selfish, somehow...

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.

The distance between you and the door when you have had enough of your spouse is love.

Photography is like stealing.You rob someone of a moment that exposes something essential about their character,their soul if you like.there are people who are very conscious of that,who find that terrifying.The thought that everyone,friend of foe,can get so close to you,look you straight in the eye and judge you without having any control over it or being able to respond.A part of them has become the property of the photographer.

Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace.

It only took a corny joke, but the smile I saw shone brighter than a glare, more profound than a star. And the best thing... it was so genuine. It was so her. I never thought I could fall more in love.

Can you imagine life without a book?

Your calling is in what you read, think and talk about

Life is choice. You can choose to be who you dream to be or not to be. It all lies in the choice you make every day!

To know the world, know yourself.

When I write, I see the character inside out, not outside in.

Change of heart comes from the Creator.

Knowledge comes from reading but wisdom comes from experience of living.

To live each day like it is your best, give your best, laugh your best, love your best and be the best you can be.

Relationships is not a game of amateurs is what people say..But they begin to foster between amateurs and become a reason to make them matured grown-ups!

Maybe that's why people don't like you. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makses some people angry.

The precious gift of life must be preserved no matter now painful and pointless it seemed. Peace, I told them, is a gift so perfect that only God should grant it. I told people, only God’s most selfish children would steal God’s greatest gift, His only gift greater than life. The gift of death.This lesson is to the murderer, I said. This is to the suicide. This is to the abortionist. This is to the suffering and sick.Only God has the right to surprise His children with death.

Decide. What you want? Life full of years or Years full of life. NOW.

I'll be living quietly in a house somewhere in the suburbs, enjoying a peaceful existence not writing the book I'm not writing now and, so as to continue not doing so, I will come up with different excuses from the ones I use now to avoid actually confronting myself. Or else I'll be interned in a poorhouse, content with my utter failure, mingling with the riffraff who believed they were geniuses when in fact they were just beggars with dreams, mixing with the anonymous mass of people who had neither the strength to triumph nor the power to turn their defeats into victories.

Don’t give someone the credit for holding you back. Give yourself the power in continuing to move forward.

Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life?People who are conventionally clever get jobs on their qualifications (the past), not on their desire to succeed (the future).Very simply, they get overtaken by those who continually strive to be better than they are.

Stay with your passion but have a philosophy that is beyond your strength so that you can have a legacy, even a legacy that will outlast you.

You have to make people realize your worth, else no one cares!

Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees. Reminding us, that the universe does not exist to fulfill our expectations. Because we are imperfect beings who are self-blinded to the truth of the world’s stunning complexity, we shave reality to paper thin theories and ideologies that we can easily grasp – and we call them truths. But the truth of a sea in all it’s immensity cannot be embodied in one tidewashed pebble.

The truth might hurt but lies hurt even more.

A ma vie de coer entier.Mon debut et ma fin. Se souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir. My whole heart for my whole life.With an alpha and an omega: my beginning and my end.Remember the past, and that there is a future.

The only journey worth taking is the spiritual journey within.

I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.

Knowledge can be acquired by education, reading, communicating and observing, but also simply by living.

Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.

And that's how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate—and enjoy. End of sermon. As Buddha says: live like a mighty river. And as the old Greeks said: live as though all your ancestors were living again through you.

Personal growth by tackling the ‘big-picture” through focusing on the things you have power to influence is more effective and less stressful.

The beginning is always NOW.

I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller—and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

I honor the divine on a daily basis, but I want to know that the greatest magick in my life is living authentically with what I have and can do.

You need to do an inventory of yourself to discover your calling and purpose

Fear is the most prodigious enemy of our soul

Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.

Do you think you wear a mask?’‘I’m wearing one right now.’ Valentino smiled softly. ‘We both are.’‘It’s a sad thought.’‘Yes,’ he said. ‘But sometimes I wonder about the alternative. Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?

It was the secret to winning any contest, he said, in life or in the boxing ring – you just had to get up more than you fell down.

Life is a hologram. Even the smallest moment contains eternity within it.

We are precarious. Which is to say some good things (accumulation of diverseknowledges, skills and abilities through work and life experiences in permanentconstruction), and a lot of bad ones (vulnerability, insecurity, poverty, socialexposure).

Let us be kind and pay our deepest gratitude to those angels who fill our life with joy, beauty, and magic.

Sacrifices by believers should not be done out of pity

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me...

Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.

The reason for the absence of success in your life is not due to the lack of money, but to not having enough knowledge of the principles of success

The willingness to burn your ships, cut off all sources of retreat, and take decisive action is often the only assured path to success.

In the light, we shall brightly.

I am living life daringly.

As we sail in the voyage of life,the love and joy we shared count more than anything else.Let them feel the rhythm of our heart,share them the music of our soul,for a meaningful, fulfilling moments of today,for a hopeful, promising and joyful tomorrow

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

First Cosmic Seal:(Devic Seal 333) One who has received this Cosmic Seal is empowered to control not less than 40,000 spirits.

Love yourself because everyone is jealous of you.

Diligence is God’s principle

There are many fish in the sea, but never let a good one swim away.

The most important part of life is in fact, the journey, and it's happening right now.

I live life with a daring curiosity.

Three things are neededFor humanity to co-exist:Truth, peace and basic needs.Everything else -Is irrelevant.

Life… has a way of testing the fault line