That Is Life. Quotes
Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are.Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.
It is much more difficult to deal with the truth about your life when you have no idea that you have feet of clay and it suddenly begins to rain.
I am sure there are other versions of happiness, but this one is mine.
No man is considered just and virtuous who does not know whence he came and wither he is going. – Napoleon
I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon
The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.
Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.
The note is the same, I fancy, be the octave high or low.
Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?
We put up a kind of spiritual firewall and make a conscious effort to shut out the headlines, because our (Bible) discussions are meant to be timeless.
Distinguish between getting lost and losing your way. The first is a shift in direction. The second is the absence of perspective. Cultivate perspective and you will be able to steer home.
...we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.
You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.
When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.
Each moment has an unrealized dimension of beauty that only your perspective can liberate.
As I leave the gardenI take with me a renewed view, And a quiet soul.
After 25 the only thing you’ll be precocious at is death.
Personally, I’m choosing to dwell upon the glory of the kingdom of which I am a part, even though I’m still a witness and sometimes a victim of the junk in ‘this’ world.
To accept the lively, the messy, and the unexpected things in our days, knowing that God sees them and has an eternal perspective, is to say with confidence I receive your timing.
In foster care it’s easier to measure what you’ve lost over what you have gained, because it there aren’t many gains in that life and you are a prisoner to someone else’s plans for your life.
Empowerment comes from self-realization and recognition of our internal gifts, which we already have.
Any self-realized being has access to the dynamic genius which nature gives all beings.
The self-realized spirit is merely a spirit emancipated from fear, judgement and knowing.
I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. 'Flour and sugar, ' she said, and then thought a bit. 'Sometimes we'll buy pretzels as a spl
What we do with our lives largely depends on the philosophy of life we have subjected our lives to as a way of living life, and which controls, move and directs our lives!
Excessive religiosity is killing so many religious people knowingly or unknowingly
What do the words “plant” and “plan” have in common? Yes, correct, it’s the word PLAN.Mind Gardening is a mindful thinking and planning philosophy.
Most of us are “living the dream” living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves.
When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: "This is for my benefit.
We wear many things, but that with greatest import is our expression.
If you are lucky, home is not only a place that you leave, but also a place where you someday arrive.
Photos sat on the piano and shelves bulged with books, testament to a life well lived.
Kick off your shoes. Unburden yourself with song. Tell each other tales. Dance around the table. Leave the cleaning up for the morning. Then go outside and look at the stars.
Kick off your shoes. Unburden yourself with song. Tell each other tales. Dance around the table. Leave the Clarke awning up for the morning. Then go outside and look at the stars.
He wanted to go home to the place that he hated.
Old buildings whisper to us in the creaking of floorboards and rattling of windowpanes.
What we seek when we wander usually leads us back home.
Freedom meant one thing to him—home.But they wouldn't let him go home.
Home is the school where we learn that love shows itself in the details.
I knew you were the one when I realized your smile was my heaven, your laugh my favorite song, and your arms my home.
One never sleepwalks through grizzlyland, dreaming of other places to be.
We are sailing in different boats and possibly we may possess a superior boat
Going forward, you must adjust to the new reality, be more self directed, and learn to be productive under the reign of uncertainty, unpredictability, and unstable times.
The reality is that moments of impact, which are your new reality, change without notice, and you have to be alert to theirunderlying patterns of change.
Through our awareness, we can open the inheritance of our qualities or talents, and behind that, reside in the stillness of being, present in the sanctity of universal love.
Change can only begin with awareness.
The more spiritually aware you become the more you will focus on your own self and less on others.
Treat me as I am, and that I shall remain.Treat me as I wish to be, and that I shall become.