Life Quotes - Page 66

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.

Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.

To achieve great things you have first to believe it.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Life is a lottery that we've already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

The greatest of men, they don't get too big to cry. They just loose faith in love and life.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.