C. L. R. James Quotes

For me to live is Christ and to die is gainPhillippians 1:21

Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.

I will make you a fisher of men

Master, take me in along with these people." Jesus answered and said, "Your star has led you astray, Judas.

Seek God's inspiration first, then you will become an inspiration to someone else.

He came to me through faith in him.

It is impossible to experience a person’s life, or to be compassionate, if you do not listen to the person or if you do not ask questions.

Compassion and kindness it turned out, was good for your health.

Never deprecate another person's sufferings even when imaginary.

Life is an endless sea of admiration, in constant collision with those who have aspired, to feel inspired once again.

Compassion is not prevention of all negative certainty, it is a home floating on the sea of fear, that equally brings assistance to those sinking.

Do not confuse kindness with weakness. Kindness is a dying art. It is the single most important quality in this world and one which is sorely lacking.

If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.

For of this world one never sees enough and to dine in harmony with nature is one of the gentlest and loveliest things we can do.

To travel across Spain and finally to reach Barcelona is like drinking a respectable red wine and finishing up with a bottle of champagne.

Early morning: set off at dawn. Travel round in front of the sun, steal a day's march on him. Keep it up for ever never grow a day older technically.

With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.

We speed through the streets past modern buildings and ancient architecture. Gazing through the taxi window Rome becomes a wet painting someone has wiped a hand across.

Your perspective guides your thoughts, your choices, your trajectory.

What was after the universe?Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!

As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.

The World is a Treasure Map.

He who dies with the most toys...dies a child.

There is no Beatitude for the lonesome.The Book doesn't say they are blessed.

You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky.

Be Clever, Think Clever and Do Clever

Great hardship always seems to be the prerequisite to meaningful spiritual growth.

We are highly susceptible to self destruction when we aren’t doing what we really want with our lives.

If you don't know how to take care of your own needs, when you try to give to others, you are giving from a bankrupt account.

Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal.

As long as you were comfortable with yourself and believed in yourself, then you could just throw out all that nonsense of worrying about your status and "success" and other people's opinions.

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glasses.

Sometimes the heart breaks... Sometimes you break... Sometimes you break your heart by breaking yourself for someone who wouldn't do the same...

Whatever you is, Onion, " he said, "be it full.

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

To be young and to experience the feeling of being alive is a sweet feeling. To feel alive and to have a purpose and a goal to that life is better still.

The purpose of life is to live. The meaning of life is whatever you choose. The secret to life is balance in all things…

10. Comparison is the root of all feelings of inferiority. The moment you begin examining other people’s strengths against your most obvious weaknesses, your self-esteem starts to crumble!

I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about.

There is no unstoppable force but time, no impenetrable object except that which separates us from the past.

Just because someone has been in your life for many years, doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be a point at which you finally decide to let go.

Sometimes there are things in our lives that aren’t meant to stay. Sometimes the changes we don’t want are the changes we need to grow." - W.J. Dlor

Don’t be afraid of change. Change happens for a reason. Roll with it. It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it.

Sometimes we think the hardest part of life is letting go, but what we fail to realize is that learning to start over makes it hard for us to let go." - W.J. Dolor

Behind Calvary's cross is the throne of heaven.

Suffering is like an echo - reflecting it only prolongs it.

By voluntarily adopting a dominated body posture you display the fact that you have accepted to be inferior.

So you see, I already have everything I want. And what do you get the man who has everything? Why, you get on your knees.

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