This Life Quotes - Page 17

• This life is a dressing room for eternity - THAT'S ALL IT IS!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Rooms, Life Is, Eternity

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• If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

  Elif Safak

  Wall, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The politics of fiction". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• Pleasure is the most real good in this life.

  Frederick The Great

  Real, Pleasure

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• To have faith in Christ means more than simply despising the delights of this life. It means we should bear all our daily trials that may bring us sorrow, distress, or unhappiness, and bear them patiently for as long as God wishes.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Mean, Long, Sorrow

  "The practical and theological chapters ; and, Three theological discourses".

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• I intend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts

  Andrea Gibson

  Heaven, Flying, Shattered

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• If in this life there are so many ways for purification and repentance, how much more should there be after death! The purification of souls, when separated from the body, will be easier. We can set no limits to the agency of the Redeemer; to redeem, to rescue, to discipline, is his work, and so will he continue to operate after this life.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Agency, Discipline, Soul

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• That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.

  Peter Cushing

  Lucky, Needs, Moments

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• I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

  Ezra Cornell

  Choices, Important, Misery

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• When your humanness is confronted by the magnificence and holiness of God, you are made SO aware of your need for God’s grace...Romans 12:1 teaches us how to live this life of worship and love.

  Darlene Zschech

  Humanness Is, Grace, And Love

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• I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Messages, Life Is

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• To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I put on to set off to war against this life.

  Shan Sa

  War, Clothes, Choices

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• We attach meaning to things, and things to meaning: endow them one way or another as if to prove to ourselves that we are who we are; this life really happened; we really have traveled this far in time and space.

  Dinah Lenney

  Space, Who We Are, Way

  "The Object Parade: Essays". Book by Dinah Lenney, 2014.

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• This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever).

  Wasif Ali Wasif

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

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• It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Want, What You Want

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• The reality is, that no matter what you do in this life, it’s coming to an end. Once you accept there’s nothing that you can do about your own mortality, then you’re now free. You have no control, so stop pretending you do. And just get on with living your life. Stop living in fear.

  Jeb Corliss

  Reality, Live Your Life, Matter

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• We're all lost. The best chance we got is to wander this life with the people who matter.

  Kristen Ashley

  People, Matter, Chance

  Kristen Ashley (2016). “The 'Burg Box Set”, p.571, Rock Chick LLC

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• This life is full of trials and tribulations, so you have to capture humor whenever and wherever you can find it.

  Steven Callahan

  Trials, Life Is, Capture

  Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Believing, desiring, deciding, and choosing correctly are the simple actions that define an increase in happiness and an increase in the inner assurance that transcends this life.

  Benjamin De Hoyos

  Believe, Simple, Action

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• But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.

  Jude Morgan

  Knives, Kitchen, Looks

  Jude Morgan (2011). “The Taste of Sorrow”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• Choose to obey the Lord quickly, always, in quiet times and in storms. As we do, our faith will be strengthened, we will find peace in this life, and we will gain the assurance that we and our families can qualify for eternal life in the world to come.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Storm, World, Gains

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• This life is a stellar opportunity to realize what you are, to bring what you first are into manifestation.

  John de Ruiter

  Opportunity, Firsts, Realizing

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• Without your entrance to greater reality in this life, greater reality has no entrance to this life. The meaning of all of this lifeisn't as it appears. The meaning of this life is for greater reality to manifest through all the forms of this life.

  John de Ruiter

  Reality, Life Is, Entrances

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• Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Eye, May

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• In this life, you should read everything you can read. Taste everything you can taste. Meet everyone you can meet. Travel everywhere you can travel. Learn everything you can learn. Experience everything you can experience.

  Mario Cuomo

  Taste, Should

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• If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?... we can confidently say... that spirituality is fearlessness. It is a way of looking boldly at this life we have been given, here, now, on earth, as this human being.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Earth, Way, Spirituality

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