Living Quotes - Page 19

Adversity doesn't exist to make us stronger. Adversity exists because this world is a damn hard place to live. Prove that you're better than the things it throws at you. Live.

Strive to make small changes and learn something new daily, because there is always these experiences you have had to tap into for the future.

Everybody is Beautiful and Unique in Their Own Special Way, Beauty goes Beyond the Outer Appearance. I think it's More Important to have a Beautiful Mind. Stop Comparing Yourselves Amongst Yourselves. Nobody is like You and Never will be You. Stop being Jealous of Others. Stop Hating on Others. Appreciate your Qualities and Characteristics.

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in this life and it is the only thing we take with us to the grave—knowledge. If you only understood that concept then your heart wouldn’t break so bad. Jealousy or revenge wouldn’t be your ambition. Stepping on others to raise yourself up wouldn’t be a goal. Competition would be left on the playing field, and your freedom from what other people think about you would light the pathway out of hell.

God is gathering a small number of chosen people who will live within the boundaries these times

The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel.

If you focus on bitterness, you destroy your life.

So you thought you could shit and eat at the same time. How disgustingly convenient.

Kamand, die every dayso you rememberto live.

Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily sacrifice of heart over mind,the forever ongoing task of explaining this and that,and why I don’t want to look like this and be like thatbut still here I am and if this is the body I’ve been given I’m sure as hell gonna make it work.

Your calling is concealed in you and has to be discovered by you alone

Connect and communicate!

If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live.

So many people die though they live, and it is not as if they don’t have life; they only refuse to keep breathing!

Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived.

The first key to a purposeful living is to accept the responsibility of your mission. When you agree "yes" to the calling, then you ask God "why?".

Being deeply, passionately, and intensely in love is being deeply, passionately, and intensely in life.

Life was for living, so why was I wasting it?

If I see only my bias, I have surrendered to a single myopic lens through which to view the world. If I dare to surrender my bias, I will spend the rest of my life seeing the world and throwing away lenses.

Overworking leads to exhaustion.

Why in the world have we never found what we’re really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won’t accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need.

To die is more important than trying to be alive. When we try to be alive, we have trouble. Rather than trying to be alive or active, if we can be calm and die or fade away into emptiness, then naturally we will be all right.

We are not living. We are swimming in water called time. When our bodies get tired, we drowned and die.

She cracked a smile. "So what's your poison" He sighed dramatically, and let the truth tumble off his tongue. "Life." "Ah," she said ruefully. "That'll kill you.

Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!

Beautiful things happen when you believe, just open your heart and your mind to conceive.

Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

Courage can't exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar.

Safety" and "fairness" are the preoccupation of the wounded. "Being" and "joy" are the unconscious realities of the free and living.

Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are simply Satan keeping you stuck where you are because he knows you will have a half-life there. He knows that you will spend half of your life disconnected, discontented and convincing your mind of what its heart will never accept. He knows when you have settled, gave up and didn’t try. Inaction is his greatest weapon, while regret is his second.

To be productive, you have to stop being absent-minded

No matter how hard you try, there are times when things just don't go as planned. And, it's not because you are doing something wrong. It is because the thing you are after is not designed for you. It is not a part of your destiny.

But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things — or as a compromise, relive rather than reminisce.

At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony of Genesis and Geology.' Like all hypocrites, these men overstate the case to such a degree, and so turn and pervert facts and words that they succeed only in gaining the applause of other hypocrites like themselves. Among the great scientists they are regarded as generals regard sutlers who trade with both armies.Surely the time must come when the wealth of the world will not be wasted in the propagation of ignorant creeds and miraculous mistakes. The time must come when churches and cathedrals will be dedicated to the use of man; when minister and priest will deem the discoveries of the living of more importance than the errors of the dead; when the truths of Nature will outrank the 'sacred' falsehoods of the past, and when a single fact will outweigh all the miracles of Holy Writ.Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then, and not until then, will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher, become a real and blessed truth.

The truest knowledge is to know thy Creator and thy self.

All of our lives are a living, breathing story, and each heartbeat means a new page has been turned; chapters don't close, they continue.

Savor the moments in life that make your heart glow. Chase after and find the moments that will take your breath away. In the end, it is only those milestones on life's journey that matter.

Living in this world, the person we are most unfamiliar with is probably ourselves.

We can not just live any how. There are consequences for every action, where evil or good.

Your are where you desire to live.

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

If a person is not inspiring you positively. There is no reason for you to be around them. You don't need their negativity in your life. There's already too much in the world. Surround yourself with people who are going to uplift you and encourage you to move forward with your dreams and goals.

Being rich or famous does not equate an effective life

Jacob studied the iron graveyard, where every vehicle was its own gravestone. He drove slowly through, as if he was afraid to wake the dead. That was not it though. The general made it clear that they should fear the living.

The way we are living,timorous or bold,will have been our life.

Without you discovering your true picture, it will be hard to have a glorious future. It is the discovery of what you have inside and the pursuit of it that can guarantee a glorious future

Leaving Humanity is only your decision.

The glory to God is the act of great thankfulness.

When you focus your attention more on your dreams and goals and less on the opinions of others, you are capable of achieving success. No one knows the desires of your heart better than you.

How much would you give to make your dream a living reality? Use the time you have.

It was a brave city, she decided, eyeing them. Brave in its other sense; not courageous, so much as outstanding, commanding. It was too nice a town to die in. Though it had no honeysuckle vines and no balconies and no guitars, it was meant for love. For living and for love, and the two were inseparable; one didn't come without the other.("Too Nice A Day To Die")

People are successful because they think and act like successful people.

Give yourself for the course of living for others, improving their lives, becoming a deliverer to a nation and you will never be at the losing end

Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.

If you want to live a godly life, then choose to put the things into your mind that lead to living a godly life.

It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361)

You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.

Let go of something old that no longer serves you to make room for something new.