Life Quotes - Page 377

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

All real living is meeting.

one should be afraid of life, not of death.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.

Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.

Everything is possible in this life.

To measure the man, measure his heart.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man's whole body records his emotional thinking.

Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.