That Is Life. Quotes
Acquire several skills and find at least one that you can master, and that earns you respect.
Contentment and gratitude are signs that you are worthy of further receivership.
...we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.
Distinguish between getting lost and losing your way. The first is a shift in direction. The second is the absence of perspective. Cultivate perspective and you will be able to steer home.
We put up a kind of spiritual firewall and make a conscious effort to shut out the headlines, because our (Bible) discussions are meant to be timeless.
Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?
The note is the same, I fancy, be the octave high or low.
Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.
The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.
I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon
No man is considered just and virtuous who does not know whence he came and wither he is going. – Napoleon
I am sure there are other versions of happiness, but this one is mine.
It is much more difficult to deal with the truth about your life when you have no idea that you have feet of clay and it suddenly begins to rain.
Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are.Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.
The lecturer points to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's decision to get engaged while in prison as his "positive statement that life will go on, " his affirmation of the power of love.
All of the negativity and unsavory characters in this environment only serve to make the exceptions shine all the more brightly.
There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.
It is not so much about what life hands you, but what you do with what you get.
The Admiral so regrets failure, he cannot THINK of success.
It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with all the secret stories of the earth.
I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside me with so much loudness you could pick it up on a stethoscope.
The greatest thing ever in the history of the world and of all of human endeavor from time immemorial is stories.
There are only two moments when everything is possible in this life, " said Petrus, "when one drinks, and when one makes up stories.
I hide away in my room to seeJust what stories will come to me.
According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show it up for the pointless mess it really is.
True gratitude can never comeFrom the mind.It has to flow from the heartTo the mind, vital and bodyUntil everything that we have and areIs a sea of gratitude.
Gratitude is pure happiness.Happiness is sure perfection.
My heart's gratitudeIs My life's plenitude.
Gratitude for every day along the way is the key to acknowledging and enjoying happiness now. Not when the results come in or when you retire, or when this or that happens.
Your ability to see beauty and possibility is proportionate to the level at which you embrace gratitude.
A mindset of gratitude lifts the veil of bitterness and allows you to see beauty and possibility.
Life doesn’t owe us anything. We only owe ourselves, to make the most of the life we are living, of the time we have left, and to live in gratitude.
I am so grateful for the many times God has shown me the mercy of not giving me what I want.
Beware: It is a quick transition from a nourishing sense of gratitude to a poisonous sense of entitlement.
Beauty brings us back to the now.
Gratitude is nutrition for a living relationship.
Appreciate your mom. She is wiser than you think and stronger than you know. Be thankful.
While the ingrates duke-it-out about the true God, you take each breath in holy gratitude.
Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude.
Even discomfort or pain delivers awareness of life, and an opportunity for gratitude.
Our receiving expands with our gratitude.
The whole purpose of the winepress is to preserve the grapes. Accept Pressing moments. What you accomplish in a moment of pressure will be used forever.
For a person of wrong mental attitude the whole world is wrong and for a person of right mental attitude the same world is a beautiful world.
The power of lack can trigger so many actions and things! We do because we lack something! We act because we need something!
Because he refused to adopt a defeatist attitude, he overcame the obstacles in his path.
Thanksgiving is an attitude that must be rooted in the ‘gift of life’ if we ever hope to be thankful for the ‘gifts’ of life.
The quality of your life hinges on your attitudes and offerings.