The Life Quotes

It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.

Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me

When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and with it the quality of your life increases dramatically.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.

And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.

Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

I don't lie; I improve on my life.

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!

Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.

It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.

A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.

As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)

Curiosity must be kept alive.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.

I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life.

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.