Things Quotes - Page 2

Contemporary Christian church would normally think that things are impossible

If we do not desire to work in order to receive these things, God will be powerless to help us

Even when one is no longer attached to things, it's still something to have been attached to them; because it was always for reasons which other people didn't grasp...' There are the places in memory you do not wish to go with others.

Do what you want that works.

Things fall apart. But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

We grow old without knowing the reason.We build the walls for no good reason.We start the wars for lack of any reason.And we cry foul, when we all knew the real reason.Is it any wonder then, that we do the things we do.When all we have to do, which is hard for a lot of you,Is reason!

You think the things you can touch and feel are the things that are real, but they are not. Over time, they all get old and decline. The people, the houses, the rocks and the mountains: one day they will all crumble. This is because they are not as real as the things that last forever. It is another one of the lessons we come to teach.

You will be remembered more for your bangs in life, than the bling.

...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion.

You may be biggest coward & looser of the world if you can't even ask for the things that you need the MOST & want it anyway.

Most of the time things against nature are scarier than the scariest things of nature

Fine Things are reservoirs for the heart.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

Recognize and appreciate little things, and enjoy what Life has to offer

QUIT = Quickly Uphold Important Things

Smartass Disciple: Where were all things before the time began?Master of Stupidity: What was the time before all things created?

It's nice to have things to look forward to.

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.

A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.

Thoughts guide you everyday. They become your choices. If you're not happy with your life, change your thoughts. Think more positive.

People are always changing themselves and their world, dear. Very few of the changes are new. We rather confuse change and newness, I think. What is truly new never changes.""You speak in riddles, aged progenitor.""The world worships a certain kind of newness. People are always talking about a new car, or a new drink or p-p-play or house, but these things are not truly new, are they? They begin to get old the minute you acquire them. New is not in things. New is within us. The truly new is something that is new forever: you. Every morning of your life and every evening, every moment is new. You have never lived this moment before and you never will again. In this sense the new is also the eternal.

...notice all the many beautiful things, nature, your own soul, stuff other people do.... like help out, smile, create, dance...

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

Learn to thank God for the things you want but cannot have. Matthew 6:25-34.

Love people. Use things. The opposite never works.

When something means nothing to you, you can do everything you want; but someday, somehow you may have to pay for it.

Three things are neededFor humanity to co-exist:Truth, peace and basic needs.Everything else -Is irrelevant.

Hoarded things might easily become a menace; a mere fire-and-theft risk; a breeding-ground for destructive insects; a source of worry. Men would have plenty of anxieties, but there was no sense in accumulating worries over THINGS! That kind of worry destroyed your character. Even an unused coat, hanging in your closet—it wasn't merely a useless thing that did nobody any good; it was an active agent of destruction to your life. And your LIFE must be saved, at all costs. What would it advantage a man—Jesus had demanded—if he were to gain the whole world, and lose his own life?

If you take things the wrong way, be aware of which end is up

What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation.

And these thingsthat keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient,they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue.They want us to change them completely, in our invisible hearts,into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever, finally, we may be.

You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been.

Better things will follow you when you do good things to others.

How will I know who I can become if I don't give myself the chance to try new things, to push myself beyond my natural boundaries? Who might I be if I am away from the things that I currently use to define myself?

Sometimes we don’t have enough faith to do big things, it is immature faith

The brain is both an emitter and a receiver of many forms of electromagnetic energy. There are fields of various forms around all living things, some we know about and others have yet to be documented.

My mother says I'm crazy, I'm not crazy, I just have a different way of looking at things.

[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.

I’m good at doing things I’m not supposed to,” she said, then kicked the door open.

We tend to think that God doesn’t struggle with mundane things like frustrations and anger. But one of his major points of frustrations is WHEN there is no man to stand for justice, fairness and equity

The story goes that one day Socrates stood gazing at a stall that sold allkinds of wares. Finally he said, “What a lot of things I don’t need!

People with money tend to buy more things instead of experiences...because they don't have time.

The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every accessory was so costly and beautiful that it had an existence above and beyond the purpose it was meant to serve – confusing the observer and absorbing attention.

I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular.

I never realized just how many things I really hated until you walked out the door and out of my life.

Deep things are revealed to you in every encounter with God

Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.

The things that may change our world to make better; smiling, helping, respecting, loving & forgiving.

You need to study all things related to your goal

Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

Perception and reality are two different things.

Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

The nights were mainly made for saying things you can't say tomorrow day.

Worrying about things you cannot control is folly. Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes much simpler.

David Foster Wallace: Because I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them then.

The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.

O Father, console them and please spare our country from that terrible disaster, not because we are any better but only out of grace. And if it has to be different, then teach me to pray: "Your will be done." O please protect him whom my soul lives! -From the journal of Diet Eman