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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Living for Christ is a day-to-day going on with Him. It is a continuous dependence upon the Spirit of God. It is believing in His faithfulness.
The purpose of life is to pass the frontiers! Attack the frontiers to go beyond them with the determination of a bull attacking the red colour!
Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.
Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.
We must love one another. Only [by doing] so can our long years of toil and struggle reach full reward and we be crowned with life everlasting.
Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.
The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions.
Life is continuous. Life never stops. We come to the really great questions and before we can answer them, life has moved on to something else.
A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct perception.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.
Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change
Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.
In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.
Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.
The Lord wants us to be filled with hope-not just because it points us to a brighter tomorrow, but because it changes the quality of our lives.
Each human being has his own sexual profile, and should exercise it without guilt - provided he does not oblige others to exercise it with him.
Do you mistake me? I am speaking of living, of moving from one moment into the next, and into the one after, breathing death in the spring air.
There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.
All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.
What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.
Let me remember I am one with God. Our shining footprints point the way to truth, for God is our Companion as we walk the world a little while.
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
When you get to a place where you don't go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you gonna see your life change tremendously.
The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
I want to take time to understand life. I want to travel. I want to be a better person, a better Mom. I want to do something good with my life.
It would be fair in terms of justice that those who believe in 'Life After Death' live much less than those who do not believe in such a thing!
Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Every man is born with the ability to do something well. This is what the Lord intended him to do. Using that ability - what life is all about.
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.
Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.
I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?
I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter to go out on the campaign trail.