Life Quotes - Page 159

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life.

The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run its course—it no longer serves the needs of men or women and in its inextricable linkage to militarism, hierarchy, and racism it threatens the very existence of life on earth. What will come after, what kind of structure will be the foundation for alternate forms of social organization we cannot yet know. We are living in an age of unprecedented transformation. We are in the process of becoming.

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breaths away.

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

You are more than you appear to be - Life is greater than you have ever known it - The best is yet to come.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we don’t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. And though we must make the journey alone, and even if suffering is our only companion, soon enough we will become a butterfly, soon enough we will taste the rapture of being alive.

Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms that come from the ability to enjoy things without having to acquire them, own them, possess them. Try to envision a relationship based on acceptance and genuine care rather than expectation. Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is. Who wouldn't want this? This is the enjoyment of non-attachment.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

Your life is going to be determined by your prayer life.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat.... the flowers under your feet are the courtesy of God's heart flung down on You! All these things say one thing only: "See how I love you."

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for