Life Quotes - Page 495

The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

Life is a daring adventure or nothing.

The object of our being placed upon this earth is that we may work out an exaltation, that we may prepare ourselves to go back and dwell with our Heavenly Father; and our Father, knowing the faults and failings of men has given us certain commandments to obey, and if we will examine those requirements and the things that devolve upon us we will find that they are all for our individual benefit and advancement. The school of life in which we are placed and the lessons that are given to us by our Father will make of us exactly what He desires, so that we may be prepared to dwell with Him.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left.

Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive; space is dynamic; space is imbued with movement expressed by forces and counterforces; space vibrates and resounds with color, light and form in the rhythm of life.

For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.

Prepare, and be forewarned in time. If thou hast tried and failed, O dauntless fighter, yet lose not courage: fight on, and to the charge return again and yet again... Remember, thou that fightest for man's liberation, each failure is success, and each sincere attempt wins its rewards in time.

Give people a second chance, but not a third.

What, what am I to do with all of this life?

people who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.

The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

For whatever life holds for you and your family in the coming days, weave the unfailing fabric of God's Word through your heart and mind. It will hold you strong, even if the rest of life unravels.

Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.