Life Quotes - Page 374

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.

Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.

I've never really taken anything very seriously. I enjoy life because I enjoy making other people enjoy it.

[Concerning the Word preached:] Do we prize it in our judgments? Do we receive in into our hearts? Do we fear the loss of the Word preached more than the loss of peace and trade? Is it the removal of the ark that troubles us? Again, do we attend to the Word with reverential devotion? When the judge is giving the charge on the bench, all attend. When the Word is preached, the great God is giving us his charge. Do we listen to it as to a matter of life and death? This is a good sign that we love the Word.

Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book in your hand but when you are waiting for a bus or riding in a train.

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

Why is partying and having a good time bad?

Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations? Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable? Then one is alone, and if one is alone Then lover and beloved are equally unreal And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

Some say that life has no form, that it is extremely diffuse. I think I can agree with them. ... A life without conclusions is painful.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.

Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.

Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life.

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

Some people call it fearless, some people call it confidence. And I feel I'm confident of whatever I do.

Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.