That Is Life. Quotes
It's a good story, ' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.''Please, ' I said.And then he did.
He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult it was to end a friendship.
But I comforted myself with the thought that the reward for every discomfort I suffered for God was a spiritual blessing.
What you believe or come to accept has infinite effects upon your thoughts.
Focus your mind and you can create whatever you want. Sometimes, just believe and let the Universe work out the details. It may deliver the results in ways you could not have imagined.
Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be.
Everything that God wants to say to you is recorded in your Bible…straight from His heart to yours.
When you know yourself—your strengths, joys, limitations, and fears—you can live in truth and transparency in all areas of your life.
not having a space you can call your own is dangerous. Everyone needs a sanctuary.
What distinguished him in a moment of crisis was his self-command.
Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God’s majesty.
If you can’t remember when you last basked in your own glow, it means you’re overdue.
Only through becoming aware of yourself and your limitations can you be transparent with others.
Knowing what environments are a good fit requires a person to know about themselves, in other words, to have self-awareness.
I'm going to stay a little uptight and anxious.
I am obviously not a patient person.
An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds to conquer, but new worlds to respect.
You must make a counter-culture decision to focus on becoming more like Jesus. Otherwise, other forces like peers, parents, coworkers, and culture will try to mold you into their image.
Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.
Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to the culture of violence.
In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.
The starting point to freedom is to begin questioning the cultural narrative you have been sold.
We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries
When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime, ' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?
Culture is what we choose to repeat.
The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you—energy begets energy.
I’m very headstrong. Once I’ve caught fire, there’s no dousing the flames—all engines full speed ahead.
He did not care about titles and was proud to be a farmer beyond all else.
...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.
The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading
I heard someone say one time that 'anger after five seconds is just pride.
Lack of ownership over your anger can incorrectly absolve you of all responsibility and so keep you stuck in the anger.
Jonah’s anger was not marked by outbursts of rage but by a quiet withdrawal from the company of others and a growing preoccupation with the events in his own life.
I'd never wanted to punch anyone as badly as I wanted to punch her right in her perfectly little surgically-altered nose.
The angry person is acutely sensitive to all they are owed by the world, and blind to all they have received
No one tape her deepest gifts through shame, guilt or anger. In fact, if you come from obligation, others smell the sadness in your blood and they will run the other way,
Your feelings and emotions are your strongest indicator if your life is moving in a purposeful direction or not, so listen closely to how you feel
We argue, as you know. I don't think she like me, but so what. I say how I feel. Feelings. That's all we have as human beings.' - Tommy
28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.
Emotions serve as our guiding system. They tell us what we feel about something. This indicates the degree of alignment with the source's energy.
It was different than all the rest because I say it was. I felt it was.
Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right.
When you feel lost turn towards love. Become a seeker of beauty in all things.
When negative feelings move upon you, reflect, and recognize the danger of feeding those feelings and keeping them alive.
Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I’m actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.
Don't keep all your feelings sheltered - express them. Don’t EVER let life shut you up.
