Life Is Quotes - Page 109

Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling.

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone.

If this world was made by a triune God, relationships of love are what life is really all about.

The main problem in developing a deep prayer life is by far the failure to live the radicality of the Gospel, hour by hour and day by day.

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them.

This precious life is our opportunity. We are not the millions and millions of other things that are not human.

Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.

The sum of all the things we shouldn't have done in our lives is enough to kill us with the weight.

The real harvest of life is the outworking of the internal. If there's nothing in there, there's nothing to work out.

They alone live whose lives are in the whole universe, and the more we concentrate our lives on limited things, the faster we go towards death. Those moments alone we live when our lives are in the universe, in others; and living this little life is death, simply death, and that is why the fear of death comes.

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

This life is full of trials and tribulations, so you have to capture humor whenever and wherever you can find it.

Life is about growing, learning, and becoming. You can not grow, learn, or become if you can not embrace the changes in your life.

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these writers are painstaking, wanting each sentence-each word-to carry weight... I know it’s not laziness, but respect for the work, and I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that life is short, and that in the end, none of us is prolific. The creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.

Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.

Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.

My biggest fear in life is fear.

The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.

My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.