That Is Life. Quotes
The unseen essential awaits your enlightened heart's ascension to love.
Sometimes in the quest for enlightenment the only thing that gets lighter is your wallet.
To be truly stylish (as opposed to merely "in style", which is the opposite) is to be unabashedly one's self, without reference to the fashions and demands of a sweltering crowd.
So many people are able to do something in life, but when they compare what they have done to their larger environment, they feel they have not done anything!
Great change doesn't come with official endorsement.
We, the atom and I, have been on friendly terms, until recently. I saw in it the key to the deepest secrets of Nature, and it revealed to me the greatness of creation and the Creator.
All of the important acts of creation and destruction involve the issuance of words and the application of signature.
Dare not surrender to weakness you divine creation!
No matter the source of our creation let us give honor to that source.
People have to create some sort of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives.
Whatever good, true, or perfect things we can say about humanity or creation, we can say of God exponentially. God is the beauty of creation and humanity multiplied to the infinite power.
God has given his law so that we will experience, not earn, the good he intends for our lives.
Law should be a literary profession, ' RGB says, 'and the best legal practioners regard law as an art as well as a craft.
Without law in some form, and, also, without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily or naturally. We have to have something hard and half-good to rebel against.
You can only do what you can, and what doesn't get done, just doesn't get done.
With positivity, one can emerge a winner under any circumstances, the reason being that the positivity brings positive changes. It is the seed of grateness.
Playful, positive sarcasm is different from negative mean sarcasm, and many people don't know the difference.
Surround yourself with beautiful and positive people, who love you and believe in you.
When you are positive you are the enabling force of possibility.
You are nothing less than a miracle!
The sparkling light inside of me multiplied billion times, hoping something beautiful will come along the way.
Nothing unleashes curiosity in an audience like good storytelling. Nothing inspires storytelling, in turn, like the results of curiosity.
The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.
The Bible provocatively evokes desire.
Sharing our story is one way we create intimacy. And like a good novel, it’s more engaging – and lasting – when we allow it to gradually unfold.
The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.
Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's just too bad.
Issues can only be resolved if each person accepts accountability in the problem.
Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting alone was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan.
The point of racism is to dehumanize those targeted by the racism. Violence as a reaction to injustice provides ammunition to racists.
I understand, gentlemen, ” John Kennedy said. “If you find that life it’s not easy, let me tell you, death is worse.
The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.
You are responsible for your own life and what happens in it, so are the other people.
It's hard to admit, but if we're brutally honest with ourselves, we see that God is more responsible for the accomplishments of our lives than we are.
You are born with infinite possibilities. Take responsibility for turning these possibilities into reality, and you will be bestowed with success, love and eternal peace.
Get this through your head — you are not responsible for other people's happiness.
You are responsible for doing what good you can with what you have, and any good is better than none.
Some victims do need to "blame" themselves and take responsibility.
It is exclusively other people's responsibility to please themselves.
You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome.
This life is only a test' is a counter-productive mindset
The race may be rough and tough, hard and hash, rude and crude, but only the pure and tough comes out clean and victorious
A little belief, a little hope, a little faith is sometimes all you need to see the light.
There is always hope and room for faith. Unless, of course, you trust the voice that screams otherwise, while ignoring the whisper that knows this to be true.
Believing in the inherent good of humankind is akin to having faith. It is to believe in something that may not be readily apparent.
For what is faith, except a perspective on life seen through the belief that there is a purpose, there is hope, there are miracles, there is something better coming and there is a loving God.
Fear slams the door on belief, hope, and faith.