Ends Quotes - Page 115

As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride, and helps us to overcome our bad mental habits. If we think in this way we will feel that difficult circumstances are our best friends. When our mind is balanced in this way it becomes as stable as Mount Meru, and nothing can cause it to shake.

Now, I simply won’t let my friends, the people who trusted me, be bothered and badgered about

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Thunderstick?... You actually said, 'Thunderstick?'... That, my friend is a Winchester 30.06.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

In the end one only experiences oneself.

Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after our errors and our sins.

She lives in Mojave in a Winnebago. His name is Bobby, he looks like a potato.

I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.

One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go, They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all,-- There are none to decline your nectar'd wine, But alone you must drink life's gall.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red... I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.

All works of art should begin... at the end.

Opportunities are never lost, just found by those who clearly see the power of trends and timing.

God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.

Losing friends and spouses is an inevitable part of aging, and many people have a tendency to go quietly into semi-isolation. Instead, set your intention on expanding and deepening the love in your life.

It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet

Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.

The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion.