Life Quotes - Page 305

If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.

If my life were a fragrance, it would smell like the sea.

Love is the light through which we find joy and happiness.

What we decide to do in the face of adversity is perhaps the truest measure of character.

Living life is sacred education.

Was it possible to find recompense, meaning, connection with others amidst the mess and the muddle ?

I have a vision,I have a will.So I own my life and I control my future

We are at that age that balances between independence and conferring with your friends about every miniscule decision you make. I've never liked that part of adolescence.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

Do not waste your life away by wishing for days you may not even get to see.

To live is to wonder.

Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.

He was a musician of the best nature, with guitar string fingertips and soft flute lips that could tighten in a trumpet's purse. Every movement was perfect, every breath filled with purpose. Whether close or open, his eyes seeped ambition and his body burned with chaotic passion. I was his instrument and he played me so well. His fingers fashioned a tune of ecstasy while his lips felt the reed shudders of my skin. He stole my breath and made it his own, using my lips to create his climactic song. A symphony of electricity and orgasmic bliss, he played me so well his fingers never did miss. Half-circles and hooks with my parted lips as his speaker, I never knew another musician so ruthlessly eager. To finish his song, to hit every note, elongating the melody of every sound from the depths of my throat. He was ambitious, pushing my limits, tearing my reservations and destroying my thresholds, all I could do was phase in and out, my ears ringing from the ballad I was made to produce.

Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards, 1793)

A life path may have strange twists and turnings, and we do not always end up where we intend to go....

Never try to outgrow the people who were helping you walk, when you could not even walk.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

You are lovelier than all the roses in the world.

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

When you see the truth for the first time, it is what people call a peak moment, or a moment of clarity. You get a larger percentage of what each moment of life actually contains; you are filled with life. Your mind is the gatekeeper of life, and sometimes it lets a little true life in, but most of the time it does not.Without the mind blocking life, you receive all of life, true life, and reflect it all back out.Seeing Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon for the first time is a peak moment for most people. Why does it make you feel so alive? Nothing really happens to you. Why doesn’t it feel as good the second time you see it? You are seeing the same thing. The reason is, your mind opens up when something is special.The truth is, every moment of life is special, and you can be completely open to life most of the time. You have to see the truth to see true life.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Why are you so restless? what are you looking for? happiness is right there, yes, in front of you.

Peace is the only destination worth searching for.

Distractions can be disastrous if they are allowed, they will steal precious time and energy from most important things that matters in life.

After torturing our adrenaline by watching a horror movie for a couple of hours the places we are most afraid of are the doors and windows of the room even though they are the only ways for us to escape in case of occurrence such an event.

If you never listen, you can't see. The devil has got so many people so disconnected that they cannot even listen or even sense when the Lord is speaking.

God is exist within us.

Have you ever wonder about the misery of sleep?

Life is all about balance, without which the seeds of chaos grow.

Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent for existence on the charity of a few human beings.

See the world for what it is.BEAUTIFUL!

the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem.

Be picky about vibes. Be picky about the energy you surround yourself with. You owe yourself that much.

You control your life by the remotes of your actions. Anytime you take actions the screen of your life changes till you get tuned to the best station or destination of God’s choice for you!

We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.

what wisdom can build, ignorance can destroy

FORKED BRANCHESWe grew up on the same street,You and me.We went to the same schools,Rode the same bus,Had the same friends,And even shared spaghettiWith each other's families.And though our roots belong toThe same tree,Our branches have grownIn different directions.Our tree,Now resembles a thousandOther treesIn a sea of a trillionOther treesWith parallel destiniesAnd similar dreams.You cannot envy the branchThat grows biggerFrom the same seed,And you cannotBlame it on the sun's direction.But you still compare us,As if we're still those twoKids at the parkSlurping down slushies andEating ice cream. Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)

We must forget the past because in Jesus Christ, all things have become new

I have set my life upon a cast,And I will stand the hazard of the die.

When you invest your time, you are pouring your life into others.

And remember my sentimental friend that a heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.

If you understand the value of time, you will convert it into products.

We tend to see what we are looking for.

Faith is never connected to safe. There is no faith without tension. For a rubber band to function to it's elasticity, it has to experience a tension. Saints of God who has no tension has no function.

Living in active consciousness is being in the “here and now

Life starts when you live for someones other than you, and ends when you stop living in others’ hearts! Birth & death are simply incidental.

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off.

When your own success shocks you, you fail to sustain it and it becomes a curse instead of a blessing. Think through issues and make considerations before you encounter the real situation. Companies invest billions in research and development, including models and simulations to increase chances of success – all in an attempt to make success deliberate for a particular project.

Almost all accidents and injuries happen when an individual is not being present and not paying attention to what they are doing.

Her name had the likeness of a name. She had the likeness of a woman, with hands but no face at all, since she never let herself see it. She had the likeness of a life, because she was all alone in it. She lived in the likeness of a house, with walls and a roof and a door that kept nothing in and nothing out.

Life is what you want it to be, not what others want to be

Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every action?

Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough.

People aren't born good or bad. It's the way you live your life that matters and how many people you inspire and empower after you're gone.

Whatever work you do in this world; the work itself has no value. If there is attachment-abhorrence behind that work, then only you are responsible for the next life. You are not responsible if attachment-abhorrence don’t occur.

One life, One story. Make it a fairytale.

Just say it: I'm angry and no one will like me. God: No, I will not say that. But don't you think we ached for you to find a love you could share your whole life with? I used your teachers to encourage you creatively when the church could not... I worked with whatever I got my hands on. Can you see that?

Step into the light and create your own shadow.

For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.