Life Quotes: Wisdom and Insights for Everyday Living - Page 212

Reflect on the journey of life with profound quotes that capture life’s complexities and beauties. Get inspired to live fully. Page 212 provides more life quotes.

Image of David Levithan
If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.
- David Levithan
Collection: Life
Image of William Law
As a good Christian should consider every place as holy, because God is there, so he should look upon every part of his life as a matter of holiness, because it is offered unto God. The profession of a clergyman is a holy profession, because it is a ministration in holy things, an attendance at the alter. But worldly business is to be made holy unto the Lord, by being done as a service unto Him, and in conformity to His Divine will.
- William Law
Collection: Life
Image of Abraham Lincoln
We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: Life
Image of Abraham Lincoln
I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: Life
Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to me that this is the only way as our eyes look to the future. As we look out across the years and across the generations, let us develop and move right here. We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collection: Life
Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In fact the two cannot be separated; religion for me is life.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collection: Life
Image of Dalai Lama
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
- Dalai Lama
Collection: Life
Image of John Lennon
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
- John Lennon
Collection: Life
Image of Soren Kierkegaard
So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Collection: Life
Image of Soren Kierkegaard
Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes - we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Collection: Life
Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Collection: Life
Image of Jennifer Lawrence
I hate saying, 'I like exercising.' I want to punch people who say that in the face.
- Jennifer Lawrence
Collection: Life
Image of Jennifer Lawrence
Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school.
- Jennifer Lawrence
Collection: Life
Image of Jennifer Lawrence
Don't go see the movies, I'm a troll. I think the movie was great, but their biggest mistake was me.
- Jennifer Lawrence
Collection: Life
Image of Jennifer Lawrence
I had to have running training because I'm not a very good runner. I run weird. ... The hardest stunt is probably basic running. And trying not to hit myself in the face with my bow, are my two greatest challenges.
- Jennifer Lawrence
Collection: Life
Image of Jennifer Lawrence
I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I don't want little girls to be like, 'Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner.' That's something I was really conscious of during training, when you're trying to get your body to look exactly right. I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong-not thin and underfed.
- Jennifer Lawrence
Collection: Life
Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it's what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collection: Life
Image of Honore de Balzac
All happiness depends on courage and work.
- Honore de Balzac
Collection: Life
Image of C. S. Lewis
He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Life
Image of Dalai Lama
Although we are all the same in not wanting problems and wanting a peaceful life, we tend to create a lot of problems for ourselves. Encountering those problems, anger develops and overwhelms our mind, which leads to violence. A good way to counter this and to work for a more peaceful world is to develop concern for others. Then our anger, jealousy and other destructive emotions will naturally weaken and diminish.
- Dalai Lama
Collection: Life
Image of Rush Limbaugh
Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people commit evil acts to enrich themselves further. Harlem, East Los Angeles, the South side of Chicago are not the poorest communities in the United States. According to a new U.S. Bureau of the Census report, the poorest communities are Shannon County, South Dakota, followed by Starr, Texas, and Tunica, Mississippi. Have you ever heard of these residents rioting to protest their living conditions?
- Rush Limbaugh
Collection: Life
Image of Terence McKenna
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Life
Image of Terence McKenna
Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Life
Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Collection: Life
Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Collection: Life
Image of Jack London
He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.
- Jack London
Collection: Life
Image of Anthony de Mello
Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
- Anthony de Mello
Collection: Life
Image of Abraham Maslow
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
- Abraham Maslow
Collection: Life
Image of Nelson Mandela
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: Life
Image of George MacDonald
Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.
- George MacDonald
Collection: Life
Image of George MacDonald
Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.
- George MacDonald
Collection: Life
Image of Thomas B. Macaulay
The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second.
- Thomas B. Macaulay
Collection: Life
Image of H. L. Mencken
Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Life
Image of Malcolm X
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
- Malcolm X
Collection: Life
Image of Anthony de Mello
You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.
- Anthony de Mello
Collection: Life
Image of Anthony de Mello
We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
- Anthony de Mello
Collection: Life
Image of Mignon McLaughlin
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Collection: Life
Image of Bob Marley
Your life is worth much more than gold.
- Bob Marley
Collection: Life
Image of Karl Marx
As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.
- Karl Marx
Collection: Life
Image of Karl Marx
The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.
- Karl Marx
Collection: Life
Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Collection: Life
Image of Peter McWilliams
One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways
- Peter McWilliams
Collection: Life
Image of Marshall McLuhan
The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.
- Marshall McLuhan
Collection: Life
Image of W. Somerset Maugham
As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Collection: Life
Image of W. Somerset Maugham
The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Collection: Life