Life Quotes - Page 363

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Don't just give up, Hachiko. Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time. If you keep getting up, you win.

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

Much of God's will for your life is already found in the Bible.

Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

A prevalent fallacy is the assumption that a proof of an afterlife would also be a proof of the existence of a deity. This is far from being the case. If, as I hold, there is no good reason to believe that a god either created or presides over this world, there is equally no good reason to believe that a god created or presides over the next world, on the unlikely supposition that such a thing exists.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.

The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.

You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.

Everything in life is made up...You make up that you are happy. You make up that you are sad. You make up that you are in love. If you don't make up your own life, who's going to make it up for you? It's bad enough when you die and everybody can make up their own stories about you. —Mr. Hooft

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

It takes some of us a lifetime to learn that Christ, our Good Shepherd, knows exactly what He is doing with us. He understands us perfectly.

I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy and cool.