Life Quotes - Page 638

The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love. And this was shewed in such manner that I could not have perceived of the part of mercy but as it were alone in love; that is to say, as to my sight.

Life is like a roller coaster- it has its ups and downs but in the end you have smiles and giggles because you know...you did it.

You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)

Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.

I've come to realize that life is what you make it.

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being ... that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of one’s days. That is the birth - the Virgin Birth - in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life.

The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn't, you've got a long adventure in the dark forest ahead of you.

I'm weary of conjectures, - this must end 'em. Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me: This in a moment brings me to an end; But this informs me I shall never die. The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years; But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

Often when people are diagnosed with a life-changing medical condition, they feel overwhelmed. They feel choked by darkness and hopelessness. Those are times when answers simply do not suffice. That's because answers don't always reach the problem where it hurts: in the gut and in the heart.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.

I couldn't care less what anybody says about me. I live my life, especially my personal life, strictly for myself... Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you.

It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the habits you are developing now will be with you for the rest of your life.