That Is Life. Quotes

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.

Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.

We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.

There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.

Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.

We fake perfect so others don't have to experience any unpleasant realities, because their life is just as fake as ours.

Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart.In your writing and your life.

My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there.

The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed.

The heart of the gospel is that Christ has come to save us from the judgment of God.

No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special.

True friends define each other.

A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.

What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.

A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.

There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

The more choices we have, the greater the need for focus.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is.

You don't have to make it big, but you do have to make a big impact.

As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins.

Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.

When you live positively it is impossible to not also be living for something greater than yourself.

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

To every soul you encounter, be a mirror, which reflects only their beauty.

There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.

God's big enough that small doesn't matter.

Human nature is the same in all professions.

Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.

I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores

Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege

I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

We profit little by books we do not enjoy.

The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.