This Life Quotes - Page 19

• The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well; Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Journey, Giving, Meditation

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jun 04, 2013

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• We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

  Steve Gleason

  Mistake, Who We Are, Made

  "Fired radio host admits he'd be offended by segment mocking ill player" by Greg Botelho, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2013.

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• God is looking for imperfect men and women who have learned to walk in moment-by-momen t dependence on the Holy Spirit. Christians who have come to terms with their inadequacies, fears, and failures. Believers who have become discontent with 'surviving' and have taken the time to investigate everything God has to offer in this life.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Taken, Men

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• Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

  Robert Vaughn

  Men, Afterlife, People

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• We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

  Saint Augustine

  Death, Good Friend, People

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• Death is the final stage of growth in this life. There is no total death. Only the body dies. The self or the spirit, or whatever you may wish to label it, is eternal. You may interpret this in any way that makes you comfortable.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Self, Growth

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• You can not have significance in this life if it is all about you. You get your significance, you find your joy in life through service and sacrifice - it's pure and simple.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Sacrifice, Simple, Joy

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• If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Giving, Want

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• Personal testimony of the gospel and the Church is the most important thing you can earn in this life. It will not only bless and guide you during this life, but it will also have a direct bearing on your life throughout eternity.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Important, Church, Eternity

  "Receiving a Testimony of Light and Truth". www.lds.org. October 2014.

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• I want you to live the best life you can. You can be world-changers. .. Pursue this life of love with focus and passion and ambition and courage. Give it your all. And that will be your path to true success.

  John Legend

  Passion, Ambition, Giving

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• He is everywhere, the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All-merciful. "Thou art our father, Thou art our mother, Thou art our beloved friend, Thou art the source of all strength; give us strength. Thou art He that beareth the burdens of the universe; help me bear the little burden of this life." Thus sang the Rishis of the Vedas. And how to worship Him? Through love. "He is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Art, Father

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekanand's Chicago Speech: Swami Vivekananda’s Speech At World Parliament Of Religion, Chicago”, p.12, editionNEXT.com

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• Above all, what I learned from my Sensei was how to wait. I believe I learned the meaning of waiting on one foot. If I understand anything in this life, it is how to wait. It is not an answer. But for me it is everything.

  Sadaharu Oh

  Believe, Feet, Waiting

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• What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.

  Fred Rogers

  Mean, Helping Others, Winning

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• God is good. He is eager to forgive. He wants us to perfect ourselves and maintain control of ourselves. He does not want Satan and others to control our lives. We must learn that keeping our Heavenly Father's commandments represents the only path to total control of ourselves, the only way to find joy, truth, and fulfillment in this life and in eternity.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Father, Perfect, Joy

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• This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Storm, Shelter

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• Kindness and a good heart are the foundation for success in this life, progress on the spiritual path, and the fulfillment of our aspirations. Our need for them is not limited to any specific time, place, society, or culture.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Kindness, Heart

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• Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!

  Tom Robbins

  Sugar, Life Is, Intimacy

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• Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.

  Max Lucado

  Conviction, God Knows, Knows

  Max Lucado (2014). “One God, One Plan, One Life: A 365 Devotional”, p.172, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Every individual matters and has a role to play in this life on Earth.

  Jane Goodall

  Play, Roles, Earth

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• Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Together, Remember

  Autobiography ch. 49 (1959)

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• It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Men, Medicine

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan (1960). “Career of the Reformer”

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• All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.

  George Whitefield

  Struggle, Looks, Sides

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• The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

  Dorothy Day

  Mistake, Play, Safe

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• Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

  H. G. Wells

  Book, Men, Shining

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Death, Regret, Fall

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