Life Quotes - Page 277

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.

You don't want to live in the past. Everything in life is in the future. You don't want to continue to be buried in the past.

Dear young people, the happiness you are seeking, the happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist. Only he gives the fullness of life to humanity! With Mary, say your own "yes" to God, for he wishes to give himself to you.

Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life.

Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.

What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?

Stay close to those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and whose eyes sparkle with happiness. Because happiness is contagious and will always manage to find a solution, whereas logic can find only an explanation for the mistake made.

I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.

We live in a culture bound by sin like bands of iron. Moral stories, quaint maxims, and life lessons shared from the heart of a beloved pulpiteer or spiritual life coach have no real power against such darkness. We need preachers of the gospel of Jesus Christ who know the Scriptures, and by God's grace face any culture with the cry, 'Thus saith the Lord!'

The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the recognition that we are responsible in part for our own destiny. Human beings can achieve this good life, but it is by the cultivation of the virtues of intelligence and courage, not faith and obedience, that we will most likely be able to do so.

You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

Life happens. Adapt. Embrace change, and make the most of everything that comes your way.

Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.

Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. . . . . Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Worrying is a necessary part of life.

On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.