Life Quotes - Page 613

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.

Obviously, it was a big life change for me and quite a shock to suddenly have these songs I'd written in my bedroom as a far-too-intense teenager all over the airwaves and see my face on buses, especially in a small country like New Zealand, but at the same time it was such a thrill and an honour knowing that my music was reaching people.

How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?

Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions.

Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.

Living life with a clear conscience is the fruit of a repentant heart and new life through Jesus Christ.

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.

Contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as an educated person. You are either learning or you are not. In today's world, it is vitally important that you see the truth in Eric Hoffer's statement. The win or loss, which is waiting in the wings for every person, is enormous. You get to choose which you will experience.

To change your life, you have to change your life.

One lifetime is not enough to live

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a voice of one drowning, and in a moment the silence returns. The world seems to me quite dreadful, the unhappiness of many people is very great, and I often wonder how they all endure it. It is usually the central thing around which their lives are built, and I suppose if they did not live most of their lives in the things of the moment, they would not be able to go on.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death.

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!