That Is Life. Quotes
It's so tempting to try to do it all, so as not to miss out. But to do all of those 'good things' means you'll do none of them well.
To make this world a whole lot brighter, when I grow up I'll be a writer.
This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.
Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.
A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste
The healing power of charity, bestowed by our Father and made possible by the Atonement of Jesus Christ, can make it virtually impossible for us even to feel emotions common to the natural man.
The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.
I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.
...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.
The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.
Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part.
When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.
My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it’s absurdity dressed up in a three-piece business suit.
Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.
When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.
In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.
What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe
When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.
The world is evil only when you become its slave.
I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal.
The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.
A troubled life beats having no life at all
We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.
Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.
Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.
End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw.
To the wizard death is merely a belief.
Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.
To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.
Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.
Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.
Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.
Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.
You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.
The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.
How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.
A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
Because when you’re laughing, there is no other emotion in that moment except for joy.
Death is the reward for living
Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.
God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.