That Is Life. Quotes
My prescription for better health is to let go of the six things that could be destroying it—anger, regret, blame, resentment, worry, and guilt.
There’s no such thing as half family.
Have you considered that some of your greatest heartaches and hardships might actually be the best things that ever happened to you in the long run?
God Himself even "forgets" the wickedness committed by those whom He has forgiven. That's why it is never too late to clean up your life.
The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.
The problem is not that we don’t recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don’t want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it.
It is quite common for people to focus on the problem rather than the solutions.
One thing they do not teach you in college is what you will actually be doing in a career of your choosing.
All questions have a basis in love. All answers lead to LOVE. If you can color everything in love, you have all the colors in the world.
His teachings, said his disciple Musaeus, had one simple theme: 'Everything comes into being from the One and is resolved into the One again.
One who walks in love sees the world through the envelope of their mission.
If you love someone or something, you acknowledge and are expressing your oneness with it. Love is simply the recognition of Oneness.
Attention is the most concrete expression of love. What we pay attention to thrives. What we do not pay attention to withers and dies. What will you pay attention to today?
Life has the habit of throwing curve balls to determine if you are paying attention.
The gift of your time and attention is love in action.
The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...
In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.
The flow of spiritual connectedness and oneness with life will dwell in you if your heart and mind is open and innocent.
So many lives are in bitterness today not just because of how their pasts were abused, but how they think they were innocent.
Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a great and grievous loss.
the happiest among us will be most altruistic, most distinct, most benevolent and most awkward to some of us in a way.
You're different. We all are. We are each "one of a kind." This means each of us will live the Christian life differently.
Balance and fullness exists in the polarity of all things.
There is a law of opposition apparent in all life which guarantees balance and fullness.
Any aggressive lust lacks balance and is unwholesome and obstructive.
Life has its sunshine and its rain, sir... its days and its nights... its peaks and its valleys...
There is nothing wrong with loving your work and wanting to apply yourself to it. But there is so much more to life. Balance is what is important, maintaining balance.
Humor can give you the edge you are looking for.
Life is all about selling. Being able to exchange knowledge and move people to co-operate.
Yoga is just gymnastics for uncoordinated people.
Not everything that is related to yoga is equally beneficial.
I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetuating our faith through your generation and beyond.
There are those whose love awakens our own and those whose love undermines. As long as we are blind to this fact, true love will elude us.
We made mistakes trying to correct mistakes. Isn't that how we knew we were parents?
He did not so much follow his father's example as his father's vision.
Both his voice and eyes had the burning cold of alcohol. His strength no longer lay in his military experience or his knowledge of the map, but in his harsh, impetuous soul.
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.
I wound my arms around his neck and kissed him back, trying to capture this moment, to clasp it, so I could always remember what it felt like to hold him this way.
My mother agreed to aid my abuse of alcohol but only if I promised never to tell my newly converted Mormon sister, whose identity I had stolen.
Individuation is an attainment of spiritual maturity frighteningly seldom attained in today's mono-cultures.
Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one’s own.
Even in that difficult hour when he knew death was imminent, he never indulged in self-pity. He knew intuitively that a person is only a victim if he accepts himself as one.
As you search for a person, place, or thing, be prepared to continue your quest, should the end result not yield your desired outcome. Enjoy the process and you’ll avoid disappointment…!
Nothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore.
I have a question. Is it okay to drink while you're pregnant...if you're planning on giving the baby up for adoption?
The Kingdom of Heaven wants to rest in our hearts.