That Is Life. Quotes

A biblical woman embraces God's callings, chooses wisely, lives courageously, and expects God's greater reward.

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.

Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.

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.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.

Tea should be taken in solitude.

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

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?

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.

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

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.

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.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

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.

Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.

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.

It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

What you keep before your eyes will affect you.

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine.

When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything.

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

Meditate, Visualize and Create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you.

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.

A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.

We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

There is nothing perfect...only life.

If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.

Concentration attracts luck factor.

Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.

The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

Our creations are the outward expressions of our inner truths.

It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling