That Is Life. Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

True friends define each other.

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.

We choose how enthusiastically we live our time alive.

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

The words you can't find, you borrow.

Do not wait and hope to be discovered...make yourself so you cannot be denied!

Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.

People are living books. The real library of life is community.

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.

Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.

Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.

I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.

Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts.It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.

Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you’ll catch more flies, if nothing else.

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?

Every moment you are open, as a humble student, you are surrounded with infinite possibilities of choice.

My mother's life was way too heavy for me.

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.

In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude.

Victim fall in love with excuses

.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.

In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me.

I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.

Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.

...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

You cannot, ever, give up on a friend who is close to giving up on themselves