Life Quotes - Page 12

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my 36 years of pediatric surgery, I have never known of one instance where the child had to be aborted to save the mother's life. If toward the end of the pregnancy complications arise that threaten the mother's health, the doctor will induce labor or perform a Caesarean section. His intention is to save the life of both the mother and the baby. The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.