That Is Life. Quotes

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of the plants themselves.[Letter to W.H. Harvey]

Nothing is more conservative than a bacterium.

You don’t have to solve it, only evolve it!

To be honest the future of The Life of One Kid... won't go very far... but I won't only put books/films.... and so on and so on... and some short stories I am going to put... from my darkness.

Choices makes us, choices made at mire proves a person to be righteous or evil. It depends on us to be vanquished or to stand indomitable to a predicament.

You don't choose a book the book chooses you

Gratitude is not just a word

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.

how long is forever when you can stop the time for a while to see...the sunrise?

We each contribute our own book to the great library of humanity.

You're all we have left of him.

Hurts are just alerts, to rise above through love.

Even when someone hurts you, you choose how to struggle, resist, deny and receive.

When the wound is fresh it hurts, more so when you are reminded to the hurt time and again

The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.

Too many non-achievers confuse humility with humiliation.

...all of us are somewhere on a journey to God, and the gap between least and most advanced is infinitely smaller than the gap between the most advanced and God himself.

Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our 'appropriate smallness.

It takes more than just awareness for us to change. It takes courage and humility and the willingness to occasionally feel like fools and laugh at ourselves.

Humble people are dignified, not because they believe their behavior can be an effective tool to control others, but because they have made dignity a part of their character.

Something greater than me was happening. And yet, it was happening to me.

I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.

He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself.

If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.

Humility is a peace that accepts one's strengths and limitations.

He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius.

...life is a continual process of learning, working hard, rising up, and then being humbled. Sliding over, then sliding over again. And again.

A humble person is comfortable in their own skin.

He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness.

Students in the school of prayer never graduate from the school of the Gospel.

Integrity comes not from privilege, textbooks, or profession, but from being grounded in humility.

He tried juggling with raw eggs – but only once.

In reverent pauses, when we slow down and think about the gift of life, we may briefly touch humility.

Humility is patient because it is neither past nor forward seeking — it is content.

We all have the same Christ dwelling within, but revelation of some new need will lead us spontaneously to trust Him to live out His life in in that particular.

If you can grasp those two truths—you are made in His image and dependent on Him—you will discover a great dignity and at the same time a profound humility.

A man should not glory in what he already knows but in what he has yet to learn.

Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.

People may feel that I am materialistic, ideal, idiot, cool, funny. Its not their perception but my projection and I always have my own reasons for my being.

For a person of wrong mental attitude the whole world is wrong and for a person of right mental attitude the same world is a beautiful world.

The power of lack can trigger so many actions and things! We do because we lack something! We act because we need something!

Because he refused to adopt a defeatist attitude, he overcame the obstacles in his path.

Thanksgiving is an attitude that must be rooted in the ‘gift of life’ if we ever hope to be thankful for the ‘gifts’ of life.

Doubt births negative confessions

The whole purpose of the winepress is to preserve the grapes. Accept Pressing moments. What you accomplish in a moment of pressure will be used forever.

There is a different world on the other side of your present attitude.

The quality of your life hinges on your attitudes and offerings.

Once you find your positive vision, then share the victory of your loving attitudes with everyone.

Changing your mind and your attitude can move you into what seems like another dimension.