Life Quotes - Page 551

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

You have to take calculated risks in life.

Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.

There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.

Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.

Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes.

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Nothing spells shame like living what feels like a double life.

Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.

What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced life; it is, rather, the social circumstances around being gay: the perceptions of it and the cultural norms that it is said to violate. As some of those norms have changed, I have been able to be gay, to have a marriage, to have a family, and to have - if there is wood to knock on - a fortunate and happy life.

All that counts in life is intention.

Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that's its beauty.

A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how the conversion of it into useful things will make of his life something worthwhile. He has learned to say no, to say no at the right time and then to stand by it. Without resistance, and the self-denial which it often imposes, there is no real happiness. In the quest for happiness man must learn that temptation resisted strengthens the mind and the soul.

His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice.

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

This long disease, my life.

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend

Life is a wondrous phenomenon.

The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.