That Is Life. Quotes
Beauty brings us back to the now.
Beware: It is a quick transition from a nourishing sense of gratitude to a poisonous sense of entitlement.
I am so grateful for the many times God has shown me the mercy of not giving me what I want.
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.
A mindset of gratitude lifts the veil of bitterness and allows you to see beauty and possibility.
Your ability to see beauty and possibility is proportionate to the level at which you embrace gratitude.
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.
My heart's gratitudeIs My life's plenitude.
Gratitude is pure happiness.Happiness is sure perfection.
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.
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.
I hide away in my room to seeJust what stories will come to me.
There are only two moments when everything is possible in this life, " said Petrus, "when one drinks, and when one makes up stories.
The greatest thing ever in the history of the world and of all of human endeavor from time immemorial is stories.
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.
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.
The Admiral so regrets failure, he cannot THINK of success.
It is not so much about what life hands you, but what you do with what you get.
There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.
All of the negativity and unsavory characters in this environment only serve to make the exceptions shine all the more brightly.
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.
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.
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.
I am sure there are other versions of happiness, but this one is mine.
No man is considered just and virtuous who does not know whence he came and wither he is going. – Napoleon
I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon
The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.
Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.
The note is the same, I fancy, be the octave high or low.
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?
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.
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 think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.
Good deeds move you towards the right place, at the right time, and with the right people. When you succeed in good things, ultimately you will experience enlightenment/ascension.
The inquisitive nature of youth should carry over into our adult lives. Challenging the status quo and enticing curiosity should be a daily practice of adult life.
The greatest thing about youth is that you're not yet battle-weary, so you'll try anything.
Youth is as easily wasted as a fine wine consumed by a drunken man. There is no poetry in aging, and Javert lived out the process in its most hideous iteration.
Demons, werewolves, zombies--they're all supposed to be for entertainment purposes only.
We're all guilty of saying insincere things at one point or another, if only just to make the moment not totally suck as much as it truly does.
There's death and life, you see. We all shine on. A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you. ...Somebody loves you.
A Seer dreams of all kinds of endings, but never a happy one for herself.
The help we give to others creates the ripple of good feeling we give to ourselves.
A good attitude, a positive perspective, a smiling face, a strong laugh are all highly contagious. Why not start spreading them?
We can choose the type of thoughts we repeat in our mind. Nothing can force us to pick any memory, circumstance or relationship without our permission.
We tried to make a heaven of earth, But the earth is just a stage, a school, Where we wear our masks and play our rolesAnd teach each other how to love.
Unworthy as I am, he allowed me to go to heaven, and I know the next time I go there, I’ll stay.
When we are in the dark, true friends are like a ray of light from heaven, it is for us to follow it or not.
Sometimes it seems safer to have just enough God to get to heaven, but not so much that he radically alters our lives.