Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.
They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work" in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking "outside the box"; and when they die they are put in a box.
The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.
Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.
Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good.
There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so - now - knowing all that you know from where you now stand, now what do you want? The answers are now coming forth to you. Go forth in joy, and get on with it.
Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.
Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few levels above, gain their self-esteem by gazing down on us. Surely, they must know that their deliverance depends on letting down their ropes. Only by working together is escape possible. Over time, many reach out, but most simply watch, mesmerized into maintaining their unspoken commitment to keeping us where we are, at whatever cost to them or to us (Bell).
The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it.
We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.
That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.
I feel if theres one little thing I could do, its to make people realize: We are not worthless because we inhabit a country which is seen by Western eyes as a primitive, fundamentalist country only. . .I mean, we are a rich mixture of all sorts of forces as well, and our lives are very much worth living.
Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in this world close to those who need me, those who I need, in order to learn, comprehend and rediscover that I can be and I want to be better at every moment.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.
Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live.
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