This Life Quotes - Page 12

• If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Other Worlds, Anxiety

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• As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Wreaths, Done

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• The real work of this life is not what we do every day from 9-5...The real work is to be passionate, be holy, be wild, be irreverent, to laugh and cry until you awaken the sleeping spirits, until the ground of your being cleaves and the universe comes flooding in.

  Geneen Roth

  Peace, Real, Passion

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• This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Dream, Shadow

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• To me, jennah is the place where you get to be with the people you love, including those you can't always be with in this life. And being with them forever.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Islamic, People, Forever

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• We will be asked, "what did you love most in this world? What did you spend life doing? What did you run after? Will it last? The things that you chased, will they last? Will they help you, or will they hurt you when the illusion of this life has passed?"

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Running, Hurt, Islamic

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• Stop trying to make this life into what it cannot and never was intended to be: jennah. Only then will it stop breaking your heart.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Islamic, Heart, Trying

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• Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Pain, Real, Islamic

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• The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Islamic, Next, Remember

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• Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Grief, Islamic, Two

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• No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Inspirational, Life, Appreciation

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• Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.

  Sophocles

  Pain, Departed, Suffering

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• Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Long, Enough, Certain

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• It's not always about survival, this life we are given; it's usually so much easier than that. It's about trusting the eternal life force that is flowing within us-letting that force lead the way through all of the inevitable changes we will face across the span of our time here on Earth.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Inspirational, Survival, Inevitable Change

  Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.291, Random House

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• To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Sweet

  Gautama Buddha (2017). “Zen Kittens”, p.136, Mango Media Inc.

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• When I take my last breath, will there be a wish that I had more stuff? I'll wish for only one thing, I think. That I loved better. That I had been better at loving and not being distracted by stuff or accomplishment. This life is so short and it will soon be over. What will we use it for?

  Colin Beavan

  Thinking, Accomplishment, Wish

  Colin Beavan (2009). “No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process”, p.210, Macmillan

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• But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Joy

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.47, Penguin

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• In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where the aching longing to be somewhere else, out of this city, out of this country, out of this body and out of this life, is kept at bay.

  Christos Tsiolkas

  Country, Song, Play

  Christos Tsiolkas (1995). “Loaded”, Random House Australia

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• In this life ain't no happy endings;
  Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.

  J. Cole

  Rap, Years, Fake

  Song: Runaway, 2013

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• So I go to the studio, and just say, 'Hi Paul, it's me, Rusty.' I think I kept it together pretty well, although I was pretty nervous. And before the day is over I'm playing guitar, and there's Paul McCartney over there, playing his Hofner bass and singing. All I can do is think, 'This life is so so bizarre.'

  Rusty Anderson

  Thinking, Guitar, Singing

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• Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.

  Rene Descartes

  Believe, Perfect, Joy

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• We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Philosophy, Real, Philosophical

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• I wake up in the morning, put on my face. The one that's going to get me through another day. Doesn't really matter...how I feel inside. This life is like a game sometimes. When you came around me the walls just disappeared. Nothing to surround me and keep me from my fears. I'm unprotected. See how I've opened up? You've made me trust.

  Avril Lavigne

  Morning, Wall, Fall

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• It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.

  Tomas Transtromer

  Thank You, Real, Choices

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• This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole... Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon mother earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Life, Mother, Self

  "My View of the World". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1961.

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