Life Quotes - Page 220

The greatest cost of the specialization of technological life - and out of which all other damages are birthed - is arguably our separation from the practical and enriching sense of ourselves as embodied beings. When we are alienated from the wisdom of the body, our lives become theoretical and abstract, and we are distanced from the direct, felt sense of living.

Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.

When you get negative people out of your life, negative things stop happening to you.

The best revenge is to live an awesome life.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

When you live with beautiful things you stimulate your mind, you enjoy life a little bit more.

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

It takes courage to be the author of your life.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They represent what we've seen, who we've loved and where we hope to go next. They remind us of the good times and the rough patches and everything in between that's made us who we are.

Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles.

"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.

For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread.

Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea of who we are creates who we become - the great news is you can change your self-impressions and change your life.

It's what you do right now that makes a difference.

Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.