That Is Life. Quotes

Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.

I was taught growing up not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, to withdraw myself from the sinful 'others'. But we are all others. We are all sinners in someone's eyes.

Life  doesn't  happen  suddenly.  It fades  in.

With all respect to your religion or world-view — thank God, thank the universe, thank evolutionary processes — the keyword is "thank" — just have some gratitude and be thankful.

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?

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

You're all we have left of him.

Hurts are just alerts, to rise above through love.

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

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

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.

Too many non-achievers confuse humility with humiliation.

...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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.

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

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

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

A humble person is comfortable in their own skin.

Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres.

When you focus, you can achieve anything. If you have no focus, you will achieve nothing.

When you want something to move out of your life, don't focus on it. Give attention to what you want.

A five-year-old who can follow the ball for ten minutes becomes a sixth grader who can start his homework on time.

Determined is a quiet inner resolve, focused on your purpose.

Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.

Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worthwhile. So, when you are lonely remember it's true: somebody, somewhere is thinking of you.

Life is full of beautiful moments. Live your life to the fullest. And do what youlove.

Love is something that is beyond us. We can't anticipate love. When, where and with whom we fall in love is coincidental and wonderful for the same reason.

I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man’s sleep.

Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about.

Accepting conflict brings you closer to knowing peace.

You unlock the door to greater levels of excellence and success when you accept who you are. It is from the point of acceptance that we can create a masterful life.

When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me.

A new novel awaits my arrival, prepares for my careful inspection. Yet a novel is always a long dream that lives in me for years before I know where to go to hunt it out.

The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.