Life Quotes - Page 633

Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing.

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years, the content of experience will determine the quality of life. Therefore one of the most essential decisions any of us can make is about how one's time is allocated or invested.

Problems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going? Creativity is one answer to that question - It provides one of the most exciting models for living.

To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.

There's no love lost between us.

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward

Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.

All I ever wanted was a world without maps.

I decided to shift my energy and concentration into changing my lifestyle and diet and taking charge of my own illness.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?

Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.

Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind of combustion which goes on within us. In every one of us there is a living process of combustion going on very similar to that of a candle, and I must try to make that plain to you. For it is not merely true in a poetical sense-the relation of the life of man to a taper; and if you will follow, I think I can make this clear.

Most incredible, however, are the times we know Christ is with us in the midst of our daily, routine lives. In the middle of cleaning the house or driving somewhere in the pick-up, He stops us. . . in our tracks and makes His presence known. Often it's in the middle of the most mundane task that He lets us know He is there with us. We realize, then, that there can be no "ordinary" moments for people who live their lives with Jesus.

Fall forward, in your failing, and rise up with a soul on fire!

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Whatever you choose, do it fully-with passion and childlike enthusiasm.

Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

Nobody ever died of laughter.