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Life Quotes (page 383)

John Bradshaw quote: "Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never..."
Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are. John Bradshaw
I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I, like a child, not understanding them, destroy them -- that is, I wish to destroy that by which I live. Leo Tolstoy
Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life. Edith Wharton
Jon Stewart quote: "If America leads a blessed life, then why did God put all of..."
If America leads a blessed life, then why did God put all of our oil under people who hate us? Jon Stewart
Anthony Hopkins quote: "It will be the kiss by which all others in your life will be..."
It will be the kiss by which all others in your life will be judged... and found wanting. Anthony Hopkins
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and... John Steinbeck
William Shakespeare quote: "I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of..."
I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. William Shakespeare
but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps. William Butler Yeats
John Berger quote: "To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can..."
To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal. John Berger
He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured.... Herman Hesse
When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret. When you are old, you become impatient with the way in which the young applaud the most insignificant improvements … while remaining heedless of the world’s barbarism. I don’t say things have got worse; I merely say the young wouldn’t notice if they had. The old times were good because then we were young, and ignorant of how ignorant the young can be. Julian Barnes
Henri Nouwen quote: "a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without..."
a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ. Henri Nouwen
We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life! Thomas Merton
There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation. Kate Chopin
Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world. C. S. Lewis

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