J-Live Quotes
I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.
How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)
Life is slippery. We all need a loving hand to hold onto.
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
People are never able to outperform their self-image.
I keep saying that I had everything, but all I had was endless tomorrows.
When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.
Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.
Our home tells a story about us, so we may as well take the opportunity to make it a stylish one.
Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)
I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.
Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.
For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf. For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth. The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic.
Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.
Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.
I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.
If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.
Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.
The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science
The only way to follow your path is to take the lead.
The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked
Be tough minded but tenderhearted.
Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)
If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.
I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
Stay positive, all other choices are pointless punishments to your psyche.
Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
Lessons cut short to prep for tests that only test how well you prep. ...Man, no wonder why the score's a mess.
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased
Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought.
Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting.
The most obvious, most absurdly recognizable phenomena in day-to-day life often become the hardest to remain consciously aware of.
The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves.
What if, when we are feeling less than happy, we were prescribed two genuinely inspiring experiences each day?
Maybe we should remember to smile more often. You know, just for the sake of smiling.
We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.