Life Quotes - Page 286

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I would love to kill George Bush. I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die, the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life.

Life is full of what-ifs. You can’t let it hold you back. If you do, you’re not really living at all… just kind of going through the motions with no meaning

[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

Missionary life is simply a chance to die.

I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now.

life is not so long that one can grow tired of it

In order to cooperate in the material worlds as agents of a divine power, the spirits temporarily have a material body. By the work required in their corporeal lives, the spirits improve their intelligence and, by observing God's law, they acquire the merits which will lead them to eternal happiness.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

In the end, an impatience with the Word of God can be explained only by an impatience with God. We all, both individually and congregationally, neglect God's Word to our own ruin.

A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

Life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

Whatever will be, will be.

To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.