Life Quotes - Page 607

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

The best things in life are gifts from the One who steadfastly loves us. But an important question to ask ourselves is this: are we in love with God or just His stuff?

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.

Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.

I’m amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.

We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.

You gave me reason to believe that we were always meant to be, but now I see you were wrong, you can't keep running back to me with all them baby baby please, No More.

I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.

Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.

The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry.

Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.

Just be happy, and if you can't be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with the people that make you happy.

There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn't have tried to improve.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength of destructiveness. Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life.

I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.

We live in a society that says "You Gotta get yours" and I'm not suggesting that you don't handle your business but I want to show people... Gandhi gave, Mother Theresa gave, Martin Luther King gave, Rosa Parks gave, Sojourner Truth gave, and these people had a rich life! They may have not had a Rolls Royce, Range Rover, or lived in the best neighborhoods but they changed history forever and they changed lives forever and that's what I aim to do.

Success is not for the weak and uncommitted... Sometimes it's gonna hurt!

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.