Life Quotes - Page 91

Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.

I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship! And I can't worship without giving thanks. It just isn't possible. When we choose the pathway of worship and giving thanks, especially in the midst of difficult circumstances, there is a fragrance, a radiance, that issues forth out of our lives to bless the Lord and others.

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.

Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Today, let's be determined to see blessings in the midst of things that seem like burdens.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have heard many saints say every significant advance I've ever made in grasping in the depth of God's love and growing deep with Him, have come through suffering.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

Strategy is a system of makeshifts. Is is more than a science. It is bringing knowledge to bear on practical life, the further elaboration of an original guiding idea under constantly changing circumstances. It is the art of acting under the pressure of the most demanding conditions...That is why general principles, rules derived from them, and systems based on these rules cannot possibly have any value for strategy.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.

In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It becomes part of a new dynamic: how people will occupy it, use it, think about it.

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.