Quotes About Life

infinite intelligence in your subconscious can impart to you wonderful kinds of knowledge of an original nature. It can reveal to you and open the way for perfect expression and true place in your life.

I strongly suggest that you cease talking about your ailments or giving them a name. The only sap from which they draw life is your attention and fear of them. Like the above-mentioned psychologist, you can become a good mental surgeon; then your troubles will be cut off like dead branches are pruned from a tree.

Neither disdain nor worship money. Understand money as a natural, healthful part of life. Your subconscious will act gainfully on that belief

As in heaven (your own mind), so on earth (in your body and environment). This is the great law of life.

Su complejo de culpa es un falso concepto de Dios y de la vida. Dios, o la Vida, no lo castigan ni lo juzgan. Usted lo hace consigo mismo con sus falsas creencias, su pensamiento negativo y su condena de sí mismo.

The contemplation of divine ideals, the study of the laws of life, the mutual agreement on a common purpose and plan, and the enjoyment of personal freedom bring about that harmonious marriage, that wedded bliss, that sense of oneness where the two become one.

I will stress this point again: The cause of your drinking is you, due to your thoughts and beliefs about life, people, and the world in general.

The results of my studies have not only strengthened my convictions that the supposed exemption from customary toils and activities was not the final purpose of sleep, but have also made clearer to my mind the conviction that no part of a man's life deserves to be considered more indispensable to its symmetrical and perfect spiritual development than the while he is separated from the phenomenal world in sleep.

The law of life is the law of belief, and belief could be summed up briefly as a thought in your mind.

Remember, you have the capacity to choose. Choose life! Choose love! Choose health! Choose happiness!

Yet life is endless. Age is not the flight of years, but the dawn of wisdom.

Remember, you have the capacity to choose. Choose life! Choose love! Choose health! Choose abundance!

The past is history, the future's a mystery. Being alive in this moment is a gift—that's why they call it the present." Whether it's between shots, between holes, or between rounds, don't forget to smell the flowers along the way. This is the most important transition, because it is only in the present that we can connect with our nature of basic goodness and simply appreciate being alive.

In short, and to put the matter bluntly, without the healing power of grace we are not be able to reason our way to God because we will lack the desire to engage with the reality beyond ourselves. In refusing this grace, we excommunicate ourselves from the world of objective reality, exorcising the power of reason instead of exercising it. In so doing, we condemn ourselves to life imprisonment, turning our very lives into a living death sentence. Since

In this embrace of suffering, even unto death, Bilbo is encapsulating the whole idea of life being a cross that we are called to carry willingly and indeed enthusiastically. Life is not about the pursuit of creature comforts and taking the paths of least resistance. It is about Love, which can be defined as willingly laying down our lives for others.

if in order to live it is necessary not to live, then what's it all for?

Perhaps part of the uncanny allure of fashionable clothing resides in the paradoxical impact of its expressiveness: the act of covering up with mere dead matter--cloth, fur, leather, or even metal when it is ingeniously shaped to the purpose--appears to reveal something magical about the life inside.

I've been thinking of a poet who is dying in New York, how these days she reads her beloved Dante, perhaps looking for something to frame what is happening to her. And whom, I wonder, do I turn to? Whom in this century do I read as if my life depended upon it?

The Rebbe then elaborated: "All knowledge you'll ever learn, every experience you'll have in life, are the circles. They're not the center. If you don't have a solid center, you'll have jagged circles, incomplete circles, many different circles. I sense that you need that center before you start building your circles.

Killing for sport is the perfect type of that pure evil for which metaphysicians have sometimes sought. Most wicked deeds are done because the doer proposes some good to himself ... [but] the killer for sport has no such comprehensible motive. He prefers death to life, darkness to light. He gets nothing except the satisfaction of saying, Something that wanted to live is dead. There is that much less vitality, consciousness, and, perhaps, joy in the universe. I am the Spirit that Denies.

If we do not allow the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food either. —JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH, "CONSERVATION IS NOT ENOUGH" (1954)

Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good performance.

Life is usually loved more than our most sacred love. In that knowledge lies the beginning of our cruelty and of our survival.