The Life Quotes
Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.
We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.
In order to live a life of holiness, we must first receive new life from God - we must be born from above.
Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.
Love yourself and realize that whatever you attempt to achieve in Life is a direct reflection of you.
Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
It took me a long time to be as brave in my personal life as I was in my professional life to be brave in love means opening yourself up to the possibility of heartbreak.
Life's not about money. Look at achievements, accomplishments . It's about having fun. It's about enjoying life.
If you want to be happy in life, consider yourself a student. Every day of your life, think: how can I improve?
The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.
Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams.
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
A lasting solution, the possibility to begin a new life, is the only dignified solution for the refugee himself.
The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic
In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.
My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.
The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry
This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy.
In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn on the sly.
Be worried if no one is criticizing you. Your job in life is to ignore the 33% who will never like you and do your best to convince the 33% who don't care either way to join the 33% who love you
What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.
The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world
You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice
The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.
Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.
The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.
It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.
Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.
I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.
The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."
Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.
Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.
The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.