On Life Quotes

For much of my life as a journalist, I've viewed myself as being embedded with civilians and with those people who live on the other side of the barrel of a gun.

It was probably the biggest accomplishment of my life.

Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart.

Life isn't about winning it's about what you learn and how much you can grow.

Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.

The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.

You may have no family, no food, no clothes, no future, no spouse, no health, or no children, yet be rich beyond your wildest dreams because you have the Holy Spirit in your life.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle.

And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.

Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.

I've been in clubs. I don't like being in an enclosed place with really loud music, and a lot of drunk people. It's not my idea of a good time. It's just such a miserable life.

It does influence every part of your life and it influences every decision you make. (speaking about faith)

Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.

You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpting is you.

What you believe has a much greater impact on your life than what anybody else believes.

One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

With my life comes my heart, yours now to crush or cherish as you will. It is my hope you will have a care in keeping both.

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

All beauty, resonance, integrity, Exist by deprivation or logic Of strange position.

You can choose right now to change the way you are experiencing a windstorm. Adjust your sails.

Success tastes that much sweeter when you have people to share it with.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.

He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.

If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

Few know the use of life before 'tis past.

A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.

I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

Life has become the future.

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.

Death is Life's high meed.

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

Each day brings its own colours to be chosen, mixed, pigments of joy, happy moments, smiles and laughter.... And which will you choose? For 'Life' is choice.

The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.

The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds of the flesh is the constant duty of believers.

Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.

Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.

Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

The hurdles have taught me that if you work really, really hard at perfecting the little things in your life, the big picture will come together.

The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.