Life Quotes - Page 258

Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.

Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

It is not your qualifications but your exposure in life that makes you who you are.

Do what you feel is right and back yourself up. Live the life you want to live.

Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

Our central job is not to solve the world’s problems. Our job is to draw our entire life from Christ and manifest that life to others. Nothing could be simpler—and nothing could be more challenging.

God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather, He is creating a people among whom He can live and who in their life together will reproduce God’s life and character.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

Where there is peace, God is.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

I want to be a pretty corpse.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.