It Is My Life. Quotes
It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.
Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination
There are so many things we do not appreciate in our life until we recognize God's love for us in them.
Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.
Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most.
What's truly important--and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn--is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).
Each moment spent in prayer is like a coin put into a bank account.
If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.
Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.
It's better to be one who is told to wait than one who waits to be told.
God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer.
Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?
Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.
...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.
When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.
There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.
If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.
God has ordained that His people live by promises and not by explanations.
One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.
Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.
Every past is worth condemning.
People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence
But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.
A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.
Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.
Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.
Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.
By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need.
If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.
Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have.
You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.
You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back
Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)
You can't judge people and touch their souls at the same time.
The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.