That Is Life. Quotes
If you are true soul mates, you never meet as strangers, you meet feeling like you’ve known each other forever. You feel at peace, calm, happy—you feel complete.
My soul recognized him and it was easy to be in sync with him—to feel like I’d known him forever.
If life can remove someone you never wanted to lose, it can replace them with someone you never dreamed of wanting.
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
Any effort made in the present is like an investment in the future.
Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories.
Technical expertise is only a tiny portion of what it takes to be a successful employee and, particularly, a successful leader.
There are people who can make love standing on a hammock, but it is not the easiest way.
No delays in expressing decisions. Whether its a Yes or No... Right or Wrong... Just tell that for heaven sake.
Out of the decisions that we make in life, our Self emerges. What we choose in life is not the thing chosen out there, but oneself.
You should never make a decision the day before your period.
The funny thing about decisions based on signs or gut or visions is that they're usually nothing but noble outs. Just another way to sabotage yourself and keep your bigger life at bay.
Only when you decide to truly live can you be free of your fears, and only when you are free of your fears can you truly live.
The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.
When we make time to write, we can do it anytime, anywhere.
Grab for time to write instead of wait for time.
The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.
I believe that what we want to write wants to be written
This is where the will to grapple with our hard and pressing environmental problems begins: in relationship to something other that you love beyond any utility, beyond any logic.
This is what differentiates sympathy from empathy. No matter how much I care for you, it's not until I recognize me in you and you in me that the veil of gauze is lifted on the world.
I know exactly what Einstein meant when he said, "Dancers are the athletes of God." You three look like angels. I can't wait to see you dancing in the Christmas concert.
It’s to your best interest to be patient with your REAL self as you nurture it back into existence." ~ Linda Deir
Funny how things have turned out, huh, Jorja. Your mother is the 'demon' and your lover is the nurturer, " Jorja commented into the air.
I wonder if He anticipates the day when He can make us understand what was occurring in our time of trial. I wonder if He broods over our sorrows.
The wonder of life is infinite, yet most fail to comprehend this.
You are always surrounded by wonder, whether you realise this or not.
I wonder what else I could do that I never thought I could.
A more wonderful life and a more beautiful world is one thought away.
Coal mines, like a hard life, have seen the best diamonds of innovation, more than any jewel factory.
Sticks and stones may break your bones, and words – can cut your insides.
Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.
In addition to an open heart and open mind, I also brought (to the small group Bible study) an open mouth.
We are a reminder to ourselves and others that we, as individuals and as a community, are stronger than we could have ever known until the moment we endured more than we previously thought possible.
When we establish human connections within the context of sharedexperience we create community wherever we go.
A father's aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens.
The truth is a community is as big or as small as your heart lets it be.
Every morning brings thousands of opportunities
DEATH IS A PROFOUND LESSON IN TRUTH: We grow to understand more about it from childhood until the day we must cross the mystic chasm and abandon the land of the living.
Perhaps, in a few people, I have seen what can be described as a struggle with death, and it can be distressing to behold. But for the vast majority of people death is gentle, tender.
The dying need only a hand to hold and a quiet in which to make their departure.
There is not a single dying human being who does not yearn for love, touch, understanding, and whose heart does not break from the withdrawal of those who should be drawing near.
Death descended like a theatrical storm over the Drakensberg Mountains, stranding me while it ran its course.
Dying only means moving into a nicer house. We have only gone into the next room.We still are what we have always been.We aren’t far away. We are only on the other side of the pathway.
There is time for a fight and a time for a flight
Maybe the greatest hope of Christmas is that what it purports to be is exactly what it is.