Life Quotes - Page 409

Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.

Its like people care more abput their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

Birthday is a sacred-life celebration.

The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy of the soul is not an ecstatic trance, high emotion or a sanguine stance toward life: It is a fierce longing for God, an unyielding resolve to live in and out of our belovedness. - pg. 152

Those who cannot perceive are no better than those who cannot see...Those who cannot empathize are no better than those who cannot perceive...

I know there are days when we want to be liked by others a little more than we want to change the world. But, if we decided to speak up a little more and hesitate a little less, we will begin making ripples of change.

Here's how you think about it: Together you constructed many things throughout your life. Then her body disappeared, but the constructions still remain. Human beings die: That's natural. But to accept her death is to lose all hope.

Life is a very brief candle especially when you burn it at both ends

You can only derive pleasure from work when it is in the sphere of your calling

Each day brings new opportunities, allowing you to constantly live with love—be there for others—bring a little light into someone's day. Be grateful and live each day to the fullest.

With your life, you are writing the history of the universe.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

The more loving, kind and simple we are, the more we resemble the God.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Some people make it really hard to remain as humanly possible

Let your life reflect the faith you have in God. Fear nothing and pray about everything. Be strong, trust God's word, and trust the process.

Persistence is the source of great strength.

The beauty of hope is that it often become a reality.

Selfishness is the absence of selflessness

Remember the Creator in the days of your youth.

Jesus our Teacher and Guide loves truth and hates iniquity

When the heart stops, you die. Love is everywhere that life is, and if there is no love for life, you die. Giving up on love is the same thing as giving up on life itself.

Never become bitter just because you were rejected by men

One works hard to prop up an illusion that sucks the life out of them, and the other works hard to make their home a place that restores them, nurtures them, and gives life to others.

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Fulfilling purpose is the major key to being productive in life

The say money talks, but I've seen it sing, and even seen it dance.

Whenever something bad happens, keep calm, take a few deep breaths and shift the focus to something positive.

When you’re very young and you’re different, you begin to believe that no one has ever been as different as you and that no one has ever felt that difference as keenly as you.

All you have to do is decide moment by moment which voice you listen to: the Truth of Love or the nightmare of fear.

Show the world there's something to fight for. Your life is the proof that beauty can still be attained.

Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.

The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption.

Sometimes things happen in our lives that wake us up to the truth, about how short life is. It’s then we wonder why we spent so much wasted time looking too far into the future.

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.-Isabel Culpeper

O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.

When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

This is how hatred begins -- with a muffled laugh on a hot night and a knock on the door.

The streets are silent / The playgrounds are still /The noise has moved elsewhere / Into our homes / Into our hearts / It’s been too long /Children are not where they belong /The streets, the playgrounds and the song /Have been waiting for too long…

...Tell me you believe that our lives are anything more than a ridiculous cascade of random chances.

Inside every poor creature was a sense of some other happy destiny, a destiny that was necessary and inevitable -why, then, did they find their lives such a burden and why were they always waiting for something?

To make the most of your life, you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart.

Cast your anxious thoughts upon the Lord. He waits to hear you speak!

To see a man’s true colors, tell him you’re saving yourself for marriage. To see a woman’s true colors, tell her you’re poor.

I felt like some part of my soul was ripped out and put under a microscope for criticizing.

When we're connected to others, we become better people.

Hard work is one of the greatest principles which I have carefully guided my life by.

That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.

To learn, read; to understand, participate.

Others have seen and experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly, and their experiences serve as models you can learn from.

Illusion"A man wants to be freeflying in the emptiness of the universeHe thinks he means somethingin the endlessness of natureA man wakes upbeing only a dust

The shaping of character mimics the smallest detail of habit; humans are creatures that learn from observation. Each little thing you do, and each thing you allow yourself to become desensitized to matters. They create you—whether you know it consciously or not.

If there is another world he lives in bliss If there is none he made the best of this.

May the enthusiasm of a new year give you a persistent willpower to fulfill your dream.

We are born to be loved, we live to be loved, and we die to be loved; so life is for love.

It is not that I am very intelligent, but I try to understand with love.

Love" is a brilliant defying logic that thrives on human weaknesses!

To be effective in fulfilling your goals, you must break them down into little tasks and then spend most of your time working on the task in front of you, instead of being overwhelmed by the enormity of the big goal.

Play and be happy.

Don’t be afraid. Be courageous!