That Is Life. Quotes
Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering.
The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.
Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.
Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract.
The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose.
To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.
I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.
Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.
Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.
Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.
Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.
Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?
The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.
Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.
I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.
We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.
Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.
If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.
I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.
Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.
A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.
We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?
So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.
Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.
Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
A biblical woman embraces God's callings, chooses wisely, lives courageously, and expects God's greater reward.
God is the One who is with us when we have to do something we don't think we are capable of doing.
I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.
The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.
You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.
You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.
The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.
