Life Quotes - Page 415

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad.

The sunlight now lay over the valley perfectly still. I went over to the graveyard beside the church and found them under the old cedars... I am finding it a little hard to say that I felt them resting there, but I did. I felt their completeness as whatever they had been in the world.I knew I had come there out of kindness, theirs and mine. The grief that came to me then was nothing like the grief I had felt for myself alone... This grief had something in it of generosity, some nearness to joy. In a strange way it added to me what I had lost. I saw that, for me, this country would always be populated with presences and absences, presences of absences, the living and the dead. The world as it is would always be a reminder of the world that was, and of the world that is to come.

You ever had the feeling the future’s become the past while you were busy being scared?

Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

Greatness is the flower of great adversity.

The dividing line between those who will be great and those who will be mediocre is the amount of time each person converts into added value to himself.

In the end, we serve, the Saviour, who saved us from death to life.

Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"I raise my eyebrows.She raises hers, too, mimicking me."The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around.

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

Where you are is merely a point along the path to where you are going.

You don't need to be everyone, nothing is ever awesome than to be comfortable in your own skin.

For every great success, diligence is desirable from the beginning to the very end.

If I could somehow know the future, then now should not be like this time.

Deeply happy people are even thankful for the trials and tragedies they pass through.

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

Victory over fear is one of the conditions of fulfilling the vision

That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality

Locate the problems in people’s lives with the intention of finding a solution

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')

If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing.

I wish there was some method to transform all the agony in my imprudent heart to an energy source. It would have lit up the world till eternity!!!

And what about magic?” “What about it?” “Will you teach me?” “You don’t even know if you’re capable of doing magic.” “How do I find out? Is there a test or something?”“Yes, we cut off your head. If it grows back, you can do magic.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

It really hurts when I see two good friends arenot talking to each other from long ago. Life isjust for once. There are so many arguments youcan win with but you are gonna lose the person

My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of ‘Gone With the Wind’, and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so when they were sewing the next day, she would tell them all the story. These girls were risking certain death for a story. And when she told me that story herself, it actually made what I do feel more important. Because giving people stories is not a luxury. It’s actually one of the things that you live and die for.

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Liars don't lie to those who are innocent, they lie to those who know the truth

People run around looking for millions of likes in their life and on the social media but do you know what? If you get just one true like from just one who loves you the most, it surpasses all other millions. God loves you the most even without make over.

Believe in gold and thou shalt never settle for silver.

...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge. Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language. The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state. It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.

...but the future is a teenage crackhead who makes shit up as he goes along.

A great director gives life to a work of art- gives it a heartbeat… a pulse… opens its eyes to the world.

Memories of the past year came tumbling down on me. The recent changes and reverses were almost overwhelming. I was learning that life flowed like a river. When the run-off was normal, the water ran smoothly. But if there came a downpour, it gushed. In the likeness to a flooding river, life events were caught up in the course of the devouring stream.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

After all these years, all I know is, I need not to do anything as a part of remorse.All I need is to write.Because,'Poetry forgives.

If you are going to grow in personal effectiveness, you must become an excellent communicator. Achieving your goals and fulfilling your mission calls for communication excellence verbally, vocally and non-verbally. As you grow in this regard, you make forward strides towards significance – the capacity to make contributions that count and matter.

Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind.Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exult

We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.

If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.

I Would Force Myself Edge Of The Life,To Know Its Really Worthy Being Alive.

You must fight to invest your time into producing products and added value to your generation.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

Whenever you find someone full of hate, purify him with forgiveness, bliss and love.

Business has two ‘children’. One is called ‘loss’ and the other ‘profit’. No one likes the one called ‘loss’, but both are indeed there. They are born together.

Tragedy of life: we want to possess more material wealth, but fail to enjoy the spiritual riches.

Sometimes it is important to sit back and think about your life. Then you realize how awesome you are.

The purpose of life is to reach a point where you can say 'yes' to all of it.

You were born for the Kingdom of God

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.

Invest in yourself, because you will only ever achieve the level of success that matches your level of wisdom.

But life has a way of chopping people off at the knees, and he was no exception. Ten years of his life had been stolen from him. Now he wasn't wasting another minute. He wanted to experience everything he had missed, to eat and drink and read and work and fuck as he pleased. His dreams were smaller now, but they were still dreams, and he was going after them with everything he had.

There isn’t a single definition of happiness to suit everyone’s requirements, but you know it when you feel it

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.

There is always the potential to advance and evolve in life.

The Story Is Always ThereSometimes you don't need to speak to someone to know how they are feeling. You don't need to ask what is their story - often people have it written on their faces and you just have to take the time out to read it.

If God knows the number of hairs on your head he already knew where you'll go after you're dead.

Life’s best lessons are learned during the most painful experiences.

Living beautifully and justly are the source of all joy and happiness.