Life Quotes - Page 257

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

Life is short, so don't waste any of it carrying around a load of bitterness. It only sours your life, and the world won't pay any attention anyway.

You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

Life is too short to make just one decision, Music's too loud for just one station, Love is too big for just one nation, AND GOD IS TOO BIG FOR JUST ONE RELIGION...

We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make sure that, no matter where a person is born, he or she has the chance to live a healthy, productive life.

Lean forward into your life... catch the best bits and the finest wind. Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit and see how dramatically that small lean can change your life.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted without having a successful career. You can be exalted if you are not rich and famous. So focus the best that you can on those things in life that will lead you back to the presence of God - keeping all things in their proper balance.

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

I rejoice in what I have and I know that fresh new experiences are always ahead. I greet the new with open arms. I trust life to be wonderful.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

Sometimes the Lord rides out the storm with us and other times He calms the restless sea around us. Most of all, He calms the storm inside us in our deepest inner soul.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

We cannot stand through the storms of life based on someone else's faith. We must be fully assured in our own hearts and minds.

You can laugh at Christianity; you can mock and ridicule it. But it works. It changes lives. If you trust Christ, start watching your attitudes and actions, because Jesus Christ is in the business of changing lives.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.