J-Live Quotes

Be grateful for every moment and every breath.

What could make a man stands taller than a newborn son?

How has Paul kept his wonder? He never forgot who he had been.

You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face

Our food is among the most intimate connections we make with the earth.

When I choose to dwell in the assurance of Whose I am and who I am in Him, I have a confident heart.

It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.

People visit exposed and vulnerable

Too many people today want a brotherly worldin which they can remain unbrotherly

I speak the unseen into seeing and I can feel it, this steady breathing in the rhythm of grace--'give thanks (in), give thanks (out)'.

We 'have' all received on grace after another, but we only recognize the glory of God in this moment 'when we wake to the one grace after another'.

We are therefore blessed with powerful minds yet at the same time cursed, not only to die, but to know that we must.

Sergeant Tin said it would be easier to just call you Corporal. She said you go back and forth, promoted one day and busted the next.

Therm-bombs! Drop ’em right on us! I been roasted before—it’s nothing!

If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try to talk. Nothing good can come out of it." narrator Charles Yu, not author Charles Yu p19

I used to only write poetry

All human happiness or misery takes the form of action

Our judgments betray our expectations, and our expectations betray our experience. What we project about the future reveals a lot—about the world we live in, and about our own past.

Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is.

There are days you live through

God does not save us to make us forget our heritage, but to complete it.

I heard someone say one time that 'anger after five seconds is just pride.

Your subservience makes me uncomfortable.”That pissed me off. “Then you shouldn’t pay people to do things for you. End of story.

Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love?

Our feelings are not there to be cast out or conquered. They’re there to be engaged and expressed with imagination and intelligence.

The problem with feelings is neither that our moods fluctuate nor that our emotions seem to fail us. The greater dilemma is that most have only learned how to dance to one type of feeling.

The very fact that you can observe this thinking mind is proof that you are not this thinking mind.

I understand that sometimes the only way we can survive our own memories is to shape them into a story that makes sense out of events that seem inexplicable.

An arrogant rich and a humble poor both need help! The former needs help to be human

Everyone, no matter how historically famous or modernly praised, has no idea about the ultimate truth of what it means to be human.

He plays the same game, but for the first time in his life he is truly playing, rather than working, being a human, and this is a vast distinction realized by few.

In our effort to be honest about our problems, it is not necessary that we cease to be mindful of our potential.

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they’ve held their own peace?

There is no question that engagement requires sacrifice, but that's what we signed up for when we decided to become parents.

Trying to win a power struggle is like trying to win a nuclear war. You may achieve your goal, but not without catastrophic casualties on both sides.

How can I help this son of mine see when I can't see? The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they've held their own peace?

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.

Ask yourself: what is it, that if I believed it down to my core, would change everything?

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

A woman's weapon is her tongue.

At the end of the day--of almost any day, regardless of what we have done or left undone--apathy tells us that it's perfectly acceptable to live with illusions of our own justice.

A subtle reason for apathy is that justice rarely has much to do with our lives. Unless we've personally been victims of injustice, we can take for granted that life is generally fair.

Injustice is a cold, unrelenting reality. It can be tempting for us to use our comfort to ignore injustice or rationalize it away. But God would have us join His work.

A well-lived day is medicine unto itself.

It is not logical that millions of modern adults and children around the world are suddenly becoming insulin resistant

I want to change the belief of millions of people who think there is nothing they can do to stop taking medications and reverse an existing case of Type 2 Diabetes.

Nurture your health, both inside and out.

You only have one day at a time to live, so live it and choose well!

A man is his tallest when he is down on his knees in prayer.