Life Quotes - Page 585

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of the Earth as the matrix from which life has emerged and on which life depends. Recovering this sense is essential to establishing the framework for mutually enhancing human-Earth relations for the flourishing of life on the planet.

The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.

People have doubted me and criticized me my whole life, and that's why I'm the way I am.

Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die.

What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?

What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.

The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.

Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life; every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.

Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call that death, but strictly speaking, death is nothing but a change of form.

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit.

....the sea changes color, but the sea does not change.

It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.

We're just enthusiastic about what we do.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

When you can live forever what do you live for?

You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what I keep coming back to is [her] dying declaration: 'So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change.'

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.