That Is Life. Quotes
Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present.
Clear out all of those doubts and fears. Let the past be the past. It's time.
You have to get clear in your present life — clear of the junk from your past.
Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow.
Where you come from, what you look like, and what your past holds do not define you as an individual--you are what you make yourself to be.
Cut away the nonsense, the drama, the regret, the scars of the past, and make a decision to no longer let them govern your happiness and freedom.
This is your life. This is your moment. Think of all you have been through just to get here… MAKE IT COUNT!
Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)
Human suffering is caused mainly by ideas, emotions, and thoughts which are the handiwork of the human itself.
What is the return on investment of being wedded to your suffering? What do you receive from stewing in victim consciousness? Righteous indignation or an excuse not to change?
Radically accept, release and allow suffering to move through you like a passing storm.
What is the ROI (return on investment) of your suffering?
You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn't mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It's an opportunity to glorify God.
Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will.
Lewis is a rare example of someone who liked to think about life's great questions because they were forced on him by his own experience.
Live is like a river in which you merge. When you struggle against the current, you suffer. When you flow with the current in a smooth and fluid experience, life becomes effortless and joyful.
Life is like a river in which you merge. When you struggle against the current, you suffer. When you flow with the current in a smooth and fluid experience, life becomes effortless and joyful.
Whenever we suffer — no matter what the severity of our suffering is — we have the ability to find meaning in the situation.
At Gethsemane: "Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires.
Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness.
God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.
Are you so dead inside you don't feel the daily anguish, terror and deathly suffering of millions? What happened to you? You've changed.
Every moment is brand new, but we often fill the new with fear of the future or pain of the past instead of simply enjoying the present.
Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch.
Out of our suffering we emerge. Our struggles are really our only hope.
Your suffering is there to inspect you and perfect you. We are made complete by our pain.
All your troubles, struggles, pains and suffering is worth one good thing.
If you don't accept and respect your suffering, it isn't going anywhere.
Your suffering needs to be respected.
Your pain is reminding you that the gift of life is tender and precious. Suffering cuts to the quick of aliveness.
Eons of suffering, brutality and struggle have paved the way through the corridors of time to create this moment, where you exist as an exalted expression of life.
Avoiding pain causes endless suffering for you and others. Avoiding pain is really selfishness.
Do not be a "go along, get along" person when it comes to the suffering of others. Integrity is not a popularity contest. Stand for love!
I don't complain about the horror of life
A kind of Providence keeps us blind to the intensity of suffering so as to keep us sane, until that day when the suffering is our own or that of someone we love beyond imagining.
It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE – IS – HARD.
Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.
Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.
By looking to the Source, to the Creator of nature, we can remember how to navigate life organically, with less struggle, and less suffering.
Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith.
Ann: How does God’s character fit into things that seem totally against his character?
That morning set in motion a series of events that caused me to wrestle with questions of God’s goodness.
Negativity pierces determination like rust. Stay coated with faith and confidence.
Being confident simply means believing that you have what it takes to do the job.
It is in the center of a stable self-love that you will find the confidence and safety you want.
Embracing your true self radiates a natural beauty that cannot be diluted or ignored. Confident, powerful, untamable, badass you!
An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken!
