Life Quotes - Page 130

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.

Life is a mirror that magnifies. What we see 'out there' is only a duplication of what we are inside.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

You can't control the length of your life. You can control the depth

When God transforms the life of just one leader, that leader can transform a church. When one church is transformed, you can transform a community. And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

I fear waking up one morning and finding out my life was all for nothing. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. When you're kind to someone in trouble, you hope they remember and are kind to someone else and so on. Soon it will be like a wildfire.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

Just be yourself, there is no one better.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.