That Is Life. Quotes

Health is a perishable thing.

A humble person is comfortable in their own skin.

Because we cannot scrub our inner body we need to learn a few skills to help cleanse our tissues, organs, and mind. This is the art of Ayurveda.

A peculiarity of the nature of your mind is that, in contrast to your physical constitution (dosha) that is fixed from birth, it can be altered through discrimination and choice.

I make no claims. I have set down the facts

A healthy choice for your overall health and well-being is one of a happy and positive disposition.

Always refer to those of the female gender as ladies.The descriptive woman is usually reserved in Dixie for females of questionable respect.

I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.

Every woman was once a little girl with big dreams. Believe in yourself and never quit dreaming!

She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence.

...life is a continual process of learning, working hard, rising up, and then being humbled. Sliding over, then sliding over again. And again.

When you judge a woman by her appearance, it doesn't define her, it defines you. Ladies, never allow yourself to be defined by someone's inability to appreciate your unique beauty.

It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".

To be just, a law has to be flexible.

It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. That’s what extreme diversity does to us.

There was no justice in rebellion. This Javert had come to believe after seeing Marseille fall headfirst into the abyss of the revolution.

Requests will always exceed resources. Doing good is imperative. Doing everything is impossible.

He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius.

Humility is a peace that accepts one's strengths and limitations.

Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.

We each contribute our own book to the great library of humanity.

He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself.

Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those who are different.

I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.

Something greater than me was happening. And yet, it was happening to me.

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of the plants themselves.[Letter to W.H. Harvey]

Nothing is more conservative than a bacterium.

You don’t have to solve it, only evolve it!

To be honest the future of The Life of One Kid... won't go very far... but I won't only put books/films.... and so on and so on... and some short stories I am going to put... from my darkness.

Choices makes us, choices made at mire proves a person to be righteous or evil. It depends on us to be vanquished or to stand indomitable to a predicament.

You don't choose a book the book chooses you

Gratitude is not just a word

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.

how long is forever when you can stop the time for a while to see...the sunrise?

Atheism certainly promotes a low view of humanity- how much lower can you get than thinking yourself an accidental by-product of a series of even larger accidents!

Humble people are dignified, not because they believe their behavior can be an effective tool to control others, but because they have made dignity a part of their character.

Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our 'appropriate smallness.

Religion allows people to ignore the needs of real beings in favour of the supposed wishes ofa being that does not exist.

...all of us are somewhere on a journey to God, and the gap between least and most advanced is infinitely smaller than the gap between the most advanced and God himself.

Too many non-achievers confuse humility with humiliation.

The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.

When the wound is fresh it hurts, more so when you are reminded to the hurt time and again

It takes more than just awareness for us to change. It takes courage and humility and the willingness to occasionally feel like fools and laugh at ourselves.

Hurts are just alerts, to rise above through love.

That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.

By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were.

You're all we have left of him.

Even when someone hurts you, you choose how to struggle, resist, deny and receive.

Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious