Life Quotes - Page 338

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.

What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.

You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

Life is a lemon and I want my money back.

Try to overcome your doubt. Believe you are beautiful. Look at yourself through someone else's green eyes. Believe someone out there will find you and kiss your skin until you can feel it blister with the heat. Believe in something bigger than your problems and you will be saved.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Take time to play! Ask for what you want. Laugh. Live loudly. Be avid. Learn a new thing. Be Yourself!

Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it's what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them.

When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

You must channel your energy towards what you love, for what you love is the foundation of your life.

If you tell yourself something often enough you will start to believe it, that is why you must make self love your mantra.

You cannot expect miracles to happen overnight, be patient, be loving and little by little the change you seek will come.

Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then, amusing things happened in battle, as they did in the rest of life. Some of the funniest things he had ever witnessed had occurred during battles. He had always found it more satisfying to laugh on a battlefield than anywhere else, for if you lived to laugh on a battlefield, you could feel you had earned the laugh. But if you just laughed in a saloon, or at a social, the laugh didn't reach deep.

Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.

Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life’s work. Destroy his faith in its squareness and honesty and you have destroyed something more; you have planted suspicion of all things in his heart.

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.