Life Quotes - Page 518

A man on a hiking trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains came to the top of a hill and saw, just below the crest, a small log cabin. Its aged owner was sitting in front of the door, smoking a corncob pipe, and when the traveler drew close enough he asked the old man patronizingly: "Lived here all your life?" "Nope," the old mountaineer replied patiently. "Not yet."

We have been told . . . that this life is a necessary part in the course of progression designed by our Father. We have been taught . . . to look upon these bodies of ours as gifts from God. . . . It has been declared in the solemn word of revelation, that the spirit and the body constitute the soul of man; and, therefore, we should look upon this body as something that shall endure in the resurrected state, beyond the grave, something to be kept pure and holy.

We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.

Touching Hearts, Changing Lives.

On the ocean of life let your mind be the ship and your heart be the compass.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.

Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings.

Life is not outside of you. You are life.

Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life.

Our job is not to figure out the 'how'. The 'how' will show up out of the commitment and believe in the 'what

The stories we love best do live in us forever.

The Soul is repository of information that we gather during a lifetime.

The reason women are always reluctant to reveal their age is because other people label them as 'past it'. In the 21st century, women over 60 are not past it - we are vital, active, sexual beings, living life to the full.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals.

I wasn't always a revolutionary, I used to live life like a criminal even though I was going through high school or college, or the fact that I was smart, had no bearing on that. People can have intelligence all the way but have no direction. Not all criminals are idiots.

The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits

Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic life, but the supreme energy and disciplined curiosity required to cut new grooves.

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.