Life Quotes - Page 577

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.

Happy wife, happy life. I think every man learns that quick. Really quick.

Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.

There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.

You never really know how or when your life is going to change, and that's for the best.

I think we're here for each other.

Life is not measured in time, but in love, contribution, and grace.

Life is yours, do not let life's problems have other influences on what you believe. See for yourself.

As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don't. But, in the end, they're the people you always come home to. Sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

Take what's useful, discard what is not.

Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.

Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

Your self-confidence increases when you know you are living your life according to your highest values.

Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.

The greatest danger in life is not taking chances. There are so many negative people wanting to grind you down, but you can't let them. If people say you are mad, you know you're on the right track.

Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.