Son Quotes - Page 76

I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.

Never take no personally. Sometimes people tell you no for a reason that has nothing to do with you. You must keep going.

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

Watch for all that beauty reflecting from you and sing a love song to your existence.

You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing. Some reduce to a meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the true Church in order to gain eternal salvation. Others finally belittle the reasonable character of the credibility of Christian Faith. These and like errors, it is clear, have crept in among certain of our sons who are deceived by imprudent zeal for souls or by false science.

Right now if this preacher died he would go to heaven. Not because I spent years in the jungles and the Andes Mountains of Peru. Not because of piety, devotion or bible study. Not because of denominational affiliation, baptism, or participation in the Lord’s supper. If I died right now, I would go to heaven because two thousand years ago the Son of God shed His blood for this wretched man. And that is my hope.

We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now.

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!

A person who cannot handle setbacks will never handle victories either.

Discover the joy of giving and you will discover the reason for living.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

people commit suicide for only one reason - to escape torment.

It comes down to this: What kind of father are you? What kind of husband are you? What kind of coach or teammate are you? What kind of son are you? What kind of friend are you? Success comes in terms of relationships.

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development.

Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.

When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.

I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there and make this a record for mass consumption, this was really just a way for me to get out of my own situation and reclaim that part of myself - so when making the songs, I wanted a testament to what I'd gone through, I wanted a snapshot of those moments.

It's our imagination that's responsible for love, not the other person.

Morning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird.

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable.

Through the process of reincarnation we have all lived on other planets and in other dimensions and we will continue to do so after our lessons on Earth have been completed. Earth is merely a school - one of many in our long education.