Life Quotes - Page 322

One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.

Life is a series of recoveries.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

Not reaching back for what was lost in my yesterdays. And not reaching for what I hope will be in my tomorrow. But living fully with what is right in front of me. And truly seeing the gift of this moment.

Life is a happy thing, a festival to be enjoyed rather than a drudgery to be endured.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

When we have adversity we oftentimes tend to look around and think that we're the Lone Ranger. We tend to believe that we're the only one who has problems. And we always look around and see others who are more talented, taller, smarter, handsomer, or faster. I can assure you, everyone has problems-even football coaches. The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life.

The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Being active and good health is the most important beauty regime because that will affect you for the rest of your life.

We have to work for a living, but it is your life, so make sure you find something that you enjoy doing and people that you enjoy doing it with. Then, hopefully, you'll have a happy life.

When you take time with God and listen to His voice, He renews your strength and enables you to handle life.

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

Christ is our hope, our cleansing and santification, our resurrection, life and repose. He alone is what we all need, and therefore, the Orthodox Church constantaly pronounces these words aloud so that we may hear them during Holy Services of the Church, and be constantly renewed. For we are inclined to forget the only thing we need. With death all will be taken from us, all earthly goods, riches, beauty of body and raiment, spacious dwellings, etc., but the virtue of the soul, that incorruptible raiment, shall remain with us eternally.

Luck is the residue of design.

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

We live that our souls may grow. The development of the soul is the purpose of existence. God Almighty is trying to obtain some decent association for Himself.

If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.

Love yourself and realize that whatever you attempt to achieve in Life is a direct reflection of you.

Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

Fitness isn’t about building a better body. It’s about building a better life.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.