Life Quotes - Page 387

I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.

How beautiful to be fully alive in the moment?

[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with our mouths too...(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)

I sometimes find myself sitting here not watching an uninteresting movie and contemplating the future. I don't always know what to do, but I have faith that I'll figure it out somehow.

Everyone is terrified of death, as we spend our whole lives avoiding it.

Life is unexchangeable grace.

Keep chasing your dreams before guilt of doing nothing touches your back

There are many good things in the world, but not all of them benefit you. Focus keeps you on the path of what is right and away from other options.

The reason why one man is great and another is not is simply because one man discovered the power of time while the other did not.

For an illuminated life, give yourself up for the service of others.

You don’t have to be happy to smile.

The smallest decisions made had such profound repercussions. One ten-minute wait could save a life… Or end it… One wrong turn down the right street or one seemingly unimportant conversation, and everything was changed. It wasn’t right that each lifetime was defined, ruined, ended, and made by such seemingly innocuous details. A major life-threatening event should come with a flashing warning sign that either said ABANDON ALL HOPE or SAFETY AHEAD. It was the cruelest joke of all that no one could see the most vicious curves until they were over the edge, falling into the abyss below.

Today is a new canvas, paint it with all your favorite colors.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

We live in a world where expectation exceed inspiration

The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater.

Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.

I must go on living. And, though itmay be childish of me, I can't go on insimple compliance. From now on I muststruggle with the world. I thought thatMother might well be the last of thosewho can end their lives beautifully andsadly, struggling with no one, neitherhating nor betraying anyone. In theworld to come there will be no room forsuch people. The dying are beautiful,but to live, to survive – those thingssomehow seem hideous andcontaminated with blood.

Move to live and live to move!

Make mistakes often without remorse or fear. You will gain experience and will be a winner.

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all

Just because things are not going the way as they should, doesn't mean they are going wrong, sometimes things are setting up in a new way & taking us towards better things. So never give up..!

Negative self assertions are like weeds in the garden of your life. Cleanse your garden of any such weeds.

Challenges in and of themselves do nothing. But they create circumstances where growth can occur in ways it can’t while sailing in smoother waters.

I never want you to deny anything about yourself because you have grown up thinking it’s unacceptable or inconvenient for the people around you.

Happiness is an inner perception, not a defined destination.

Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know.

Those who are not free to live as they choose are second class citizens. The weak will lose everything to the strong, even their lives.

Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?

People say hate is like a poison — but they're wrong. It's like a drug. You never forget your first hit, how it seduces you with its strength and power, and takes you completely by storm. It colors your world in light and meaning, until you wonder how you ever managed to get by without it. And then, eventually, you get to a point where you can't. It takes over your life, until hating becomes your reason for living.

One good thing about love, when it touches you, time stands still.

Words are life. They can tear down or build up, so use them wisely.

Life is all about conversion.

For your life to count, you need to begin to live for others

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Don't let someone treat you like shit or you're just one of many options,' Know your worth...'Remember!, One of The most powerful thing about time is...it CHANGES..' everything! that defines you'

Time is the first currency for success and one we all hold in common.

Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful

Let your ways and actions be in honor of Christ

He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.

Time is the raw material from which money is made.

when I drive the freeways I see the soul of humanity ofmy city and it's ugly, ugly, ugly: the living have choked theheartaway.

For the first time in a long time I've met a man that makes my heart want to stay.

What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.

Do not to look at what you are seeing, do not look at the visible work

Everything in life is somewhere else and you get there through open heart.

Sometimes you may feel like your life is submerged in life's relentless challenges, but you can develop the kind of internal substance in you that displaces every negativity, fear and self-doubt. Even if the challenges were bigger and heavy on your soul and life, the new attitude and belief within will displace every challenge before you - then the law of buoyancy will begin to force your challenges to be ejected out of your pathway to success.

It takes two to Tao.

Religion is, in reality, living. Our religion is not what we profess, or what we say, or what we proclaim; our religion is what we do, what we desire, what we seek, what we dream about, what we fantasize, what we think - all these things - twenty-four hours a day. One's religion, then, is ones life, not merely the ideal life but the life as it is actually lived. Religion is not prayer, it is not a church, it is not theistic, it is not atheistic, it has little to do with what white people call "religion." It is our every act. If we tromp on a bug, that is our religion; if we experiment on living animals, that is our religion; if we cheat at cards, that is our religion; if we dream of being famous, that is our religion; if we gossip maliciously, that is our religion; if we are rude and aggressive, that is our religion. All that we do, and are, is our religion.

I am sure that the reason why I wept and stormed as if I had gone off my head was that the combination of physical exhaustion and my unhappiness had made me hate and resent everything.

In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals, for Tirawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent certain animals to tell men that he showed himself through the beast, and that from them, and from the stars and the sun and moon should man learn.. all things tell of Tirawa. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Happiness is an inner perception, not an outer realistic conception.

Life is your greatest asset.

Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.""What?""He'll understand.

We live our entire lives thinking we know those closest to us. But do we ever really?

Life is a celebration. Free your mind to find the liberation.

Everyone enjoys being acknowledged and appreciated. Sometimes even the simplest act of gratitude can change someone's entire day. Take the time to recognize and value the people around you and appreciate those who make a difference in your lives.

It’s my life and I’m not afraid to LIVE it! I would rather experience the ups and downs of a life I have chosen, than to suffer the regret of a life I have settled for.

Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends,what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next.

Kindly permit me to tell you, sir, that I hate you. I hate you and your child, as I hate the life of which you are the representative: cheap, ridiculous, but yet triumphant life, the everlasting antipodes and deadly enemy of beauty. I cannot say I despise you - for I am honest. You are stronger than I. I have no armour for the struggle between us, I have only the Word, avenging weapon of the weak. Today I have availed myself of this weapon. This letter is nothing but an act of revenge - you see how honourable I am - and if any word of mine is sharp and bright and beautiful enough to strike home, to make you feel the presence of a power you do not know, to shake even a minute your robust equilibrium, I shall rejoice indeed. -