Life Quotes - Page 560

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

The goal and target of our life is He, the Christ who awaits us -- each one singly and altogether -- to lead us across the boundaries of time to the eternal embrace of the God who loves us.

We should commit ourselves to 'eucharistic coherence,' that is, we should be conscious that people cannot receive holy communion and at the same time act or speak against the commandments, in particular when abortions, euthanasia, and other serious crimes against life and family are facilitated. This responsibility applies particularly to legislators, governors, and health professionals.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.

The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The dark door of time, of the future, has been thrown open. The one who has hope lives differently; the one who hopes has been granted the gift of a new life.

The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right – it is the very opposite. It is “a deep wound in society”.

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

Life is a do-it-yourself kit, so do it yourself. Work. Practice.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

The temples perish, but the God still lives.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

Most of us, when asked to gauge the richness of our lives, think immediately of people. Those who have cried with us, laughed with us, and shaped who we are.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace.

If you're not living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space. The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.

I wish no living thing to suffer pain.