Life Quotes - Page 430

I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.

Live each day as if it were the last day of your life because, so far, it is.

Never say more than is necessary.

Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life.

If you have more negative things than positive things in your life, then something is very wrong and you know it.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a mistake or don't know something.

We do not live so that we can eat, nor do we just eat so that we can live. Life is worth living in and of itself. Life cannot be satisfied when it is lived out as a consuming entity. When it is filled by that which satisfies a hunger that is both physical and spiritual in a mutuality that sustains both without violation of either, only then can life be truly fulfilling.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

What Jesus meant was that whoever is attached to the worldly life and this earthly body will lose them in death. But whoever lets go of attachments to this worldly life and this earthly body and identifies with the permanence or God-consciousness that Jesus represented, will never die.

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

Take it easy, and remember "Easy is Right."

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.

Eugene Peterson points out that "the root meaning in Hebrew of salvation is to be broad, to become spacious, to enlarge. It carries the sense of deliverance from an existence that has become compressed, confined and cramped." God wants to set free, to make it possible for us to live open and loving lives with God and our neighbors. "I run in the path of your commands, for you have set my heart free," wrote the psalmist.

Life is first boredom, then fear.

When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the genetic life-stream, and we draw strength and nourishment from this.

No matter what the realm of leadership – the home, the workplace, the church, or the community – the vision is crucial. Leaders must funnel their faith into action so that life-changing results.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

We still did not answer the questions that are important to us

All men are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so.