Life Quotes - Page 629

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.

Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

When we let go of believing we are superior, we open ourselves to the experience of living in the community of Nature.

They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.

Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise you with inconvenient demands. You never find humanity on your doorstep, stinking and begging.

The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.

Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks!

Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life.

The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.

I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

The light of love drives away the darkness of guilt.

He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.

I believe that I am guided by chance encounters. I believe in the miracle of chance encounters.

The Lord only demands of us what is within our capabilities.

Be happy when you reach the top: cry, clap your hands, shout to the four winds that you did it, let the wind - the wind is always blowing up there - purify your mind, refresh your tired and sweaty feet, open your eyes, clean the dust from your heart. It feels so good, what was just a dream before, a distant vision, is now part of your life, you did it!

Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses.