That Is Life. Quotes

Wishing that I could stay right here in this moment of not doing, but simply being, forever.

She's not close enough. She'll never be close enough...

When I was laying there in his arms nothing else mattered. My parents, my lack of funds, everything just seemed to melt away as I was lost in his lips"- Bentley Evans

When life hands you lemons sometimes you just have to say screw the lemons, and bail.

Reputations seldom deliver on promises of happiness.

Your ma's dating?" Tim looks shocked. "I thought she pretty much confined herself to a vibrator and the shower nozzle since your dad screwed her over.

Borman's dumping urine. Urine [in] approximately one minute." Two lines further along, we see Lovell saying, "What a sight to behold!

Thus, hanging around in our towels (and those weird disposable underpants) was no big deal.

They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn't subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally.

If I ever figured out how to go back in time, I'd tell my nine-year-old self to run the other way when a gnome showed up in her room promising a life of magic and adventure.

I mean, shit, what Latino family doesn't think it's cursed?

The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it.

When you succumb to cynicism, darkness, pessimism and sarcasm you are amplifying imbalance and negativity.

To love your weakness, negativity and darkness is to accept half of who you are.

If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder.

It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.

If you have a poverty of heart then you are the poorest among the poor.

The forces of justice had finally come to Annawadi. That the beneficiaries were horses was a source of bemusement to Sunil and the road boys.

Sometimes, all you can take are memoriesBut if you’re lucky enough to capture the moment, it lives forever, immortally fixed.

Generosity is the rarest of qualities in American writers.

I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost, " while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.

Reality, in its essence, consists not of particles interacting pointlessly in anindependent physical plane, but rather of values, psychological elements ofmind, made real.

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

Our evening-long tango of stares had my head spinning.

You are nothing but trouble.”

Consciousness provides the fertile ground where seeds of greatness are born.

Consciousness precedes phenomenon, and therefore consciousness can alter phenomenon.

What our consciousness is experiencing is just a sliver of the infinite, multiple realities where we exist simultaneously

You have access to everything that has ever happened or ever will happen if you can only open your consciousness to receive it.

Get to know the master within you. Fall at the feet of your Self.

Could you imagine a windstorm without the rustling of the leaves? You are made of the same stuff as the leaves–and the wind. You are meant to be rustled and sung.

When your chair is positioned facing the wall, you see the wall. When it is positioned facing the sea, you see the sea. The same is true for us. Perspective is everything. Align with the divine.

An act of mastery is mastery itself.

The programming of the consciousness is based upon what is accepted or believed.

The meaning of Sannyas is not well defined. Its meaning is not static

You can trust your gut instinct. Always.

Indeed, of the major religions, Islam offers no discernible sliver of valid notion for How Life Works.

You are the only real authority in your life, but you yield that status to so many externals by believing in them, by having been punished or forced into accepting them.

Because your life is a reflection of your inner Self, causality comes exclusively in changing your own nature, not trying to change the external world out there by manipulating it.

When, and only when, you clearly see the inner roots to an outer condition, can you change them and thus it.

There is no other force, no other determining factor, no external cause to the cohesive unfolding of your life’s episodes – only your composite inner nature. Change that and you change your life.

Vocal cords are not rental units. No Hebrew prophet, nor Mohammed, nor any founder of any cult or religion ever spoke the words of anybody but themselves.

The only creative force capable of causally revising your experienced reality is your power to change your Self.

It must be obvious that the Reality we all encounter only works one way, and it functions that way regardless of what the experiencer believes.

Whatever beliefs and definitions you hold will seem to be true.

Beliefs and definitions never clarify how Reality works -- they only distort perception of it.

Laugh and make the best of every situation. Understand that life is not perfect.

Assumptions should never be the basis of any understanding.

Their faces were contorted with a horror only known to those who have silenced their consciences.