That Is Life. Quotes
He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.
The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.
Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.
Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.
The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.
The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.
She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.
Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.
Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.
Mind isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.
Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!
Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment.
Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.
His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.
You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel
They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S
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
The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.
Republics exist as long as the people "adhere to principles and virtue.
Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.
To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.
When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you're doing, you become stressed.
Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.
It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.
The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence.
The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.
Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.
To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream arises. This is the new earth.
A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
She became at once more intimate and more exalted.
...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.
Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.
He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.
Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.
A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.
Each one of us is responsible for reducing the negative potential of every situation we have to face.
War is massacre. It is 100 per cent negative.
Don't you realize, " Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?
, "I am not crazy, my reality is just different from yours."-Cheshire Cat
Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.
How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego's sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you have in the eyes of others.
the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal.
We can achieve the fullest measure of life by living it for others.