Life Quotes - Page 230

There are so many lies out there about what the good life is whether that's making as much money as you can or just being the best you can be. I just want to challenge those lies and look at what God says the good life is in His Word. He says that the good life is about believing in God and embracing everything that He has for us.

Nowhere on your birth certificate did it say life would be fair

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Life is all about balance. Since I have only one leg, I understand that well.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.

If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.

The flower draws its life energy from the soil and from the sun. We are very similar. We continuously receive energy from the earth through our feet and from the air. Energy is everywhere, like love. We just have to open ourselves up to receive it.

For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

What the spiritual journey is all about is uniting our will with God's will, wanting what He wants, loving what He loves, living a life that in all its aspects honors Him and gives Him glory.

And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

When ever I have a Problem, I just sing. Then I know my voice is a lot worse then my Problem.

Kindness is a calling. Caring about people is powerful. Love changes lives.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life.

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him.