Quotes About Life

All of mankind's problems are a result of one major dilemma. What's this dilemma? Possession without comprehension; assignment without instruction; resources without knowledge; having everything but not knowing why. Essentially, the dilemma is that we lack understanding. Without understanding, life is an experiment, and frustration is the reward.

Prayer is therefore not an option for mankind but a necessity. If we don't pray, heaven cannot interfere in earth's affairs. It is imperative that we take responsibility for the earth and determine what happens here by our prayer lives.

belief creates your life, and that's what faith is: believing things that you haven't yet seen to the point that you act on them until they come into being. It is through faith that people experience personal growth and success.

We should never allow our lives to become so hurried or myopic that we ignore the value of the resources around us-especially the people.

Purpose is the raw material for your prayer life.

He who fears to try will never know what he could have done. He who fears God has nothing else to fear. To maximize your life you must neutralize fear with faith.

To maximize your life you must declare independence from the opinions of others.

like stars and starstuff born to live, to blaze, and die.

What is invisible and yet still lives is more powerful than monuments or words engraved in stone.

Life is a journey, not a destination. Enjoy every step of the way.

Life is a precious gift, cherish every moment and make the most of it.

Life is like a book, some chapters are sad, some are happy, and some are exciting. But if you never turn the page, you will never know what the next chapter holds.

Life is like a camera, focus on the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don't work out, take another shot.

It's a strange conception of liberty when we argue over the right to kill our babies.

A mother has far greater influence on her children than anyone else, and she must realize that every word she speaks, every act, every response, her attitude, even her appearance and manner of dress affect the lives of her children and the whole family. It is while the child is in the home that he gains from his mother the attitudes, hopes, and beliefs that will determine the kind of life he will live and the contribution he will make to society.

The human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Seize the day, and make our lives extraordinary.

Medicine, law, banking--these are necessary to sustain life. But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for! - Mr. Keating, Dead Poet's Society.

Medicine, law, banking - these are necessary to sustain life. But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!

When we dance the earth trembles. When our steps fall on the earth we feel the shudder of life beneath us, and the earth feels the beating of our hearts, and we become one with the earth. We shall not sever ourselves from the earth. We must chant our being, and we must dance in time with the rhythms of the earth. We must keep the earth.

Nous avons vu la mer' We have been lovers, you and I. We have been alive in the clear mornings of Genesis; in the afternoons, among the prisms of the air, our hands have shaped perfect silences. We have seen the sea; wonder is well known to us.

Salvation, then, is not "going to heaven" but "being raised to life in God's new heaven and new earth.

we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe – harmless, in fact – with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.

Dust we are, and to dust we shall return. But God can do new things with dust.