It Is My Life. Quotes
Stay open to opportunity -- you never know where your next important connection will be made.
They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.
Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.
God pity the poor novelist.
The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out.
Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations.
Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours.
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.
Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.
Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.
While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.
The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.
But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?
A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.
It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that His Resurrection was announced.
If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.
If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.
Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?
...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.
To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.
All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
My life will be the best illustration of all my work.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
There are only two lives we might live: our dream or our destiny. Sometimes they are one in the same, and sometimes they're not. Often our dreams are just a path to our destinies.
Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.
Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.
I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.