This Life Quotes - Page 22

Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.

Charlie Sheen

Meaningful, Trying, Meaning Of Life

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Walking through this life really is walking through fire.

Chaka Khan

Fire, Walking

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My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.

Anthony de Mello

Spiritual, Hot, Another Life

Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.42, Image

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I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that is death and rebirth, that we must come to despise earthly joy and suffering, and long only for the peace of the presence of the eternal. Yet I love this life on Earth, Morgan, and I love you with a love that is stronger than death, and if sin is the price of binding us together, life after life across the ages, then I will sin joyfully and without regret, so that it brings me back to you, my beloved!

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Love, Regret, True Joy

Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.74, Ballantine Books

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I heard a story about a woman who grew up in Texas. When she was having trouble in her life, she would visit her grandmother, who lived nearby and always had a kind word and some wisdom to pass on. One day she was complaining to her grandmother about some situation and her grandmother just turned to her, smiled sadly, and said, "Sometimes, darlin', you've just got to rise above yourself in this life." I've remembered that wise advice many times as I've faced trouble in my life.

William Hudson O'Hanlon

Wise, Adversity, Grandmother

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What is the hope that can give meaning to life? Without some form of hope, the Holy Father argues that life becomes tedious and potentially burdersome, even if it is marked by material influence and technical progress. The person without hope finds himself in an existential difficulty: For what enduring purpose am I clinging to this life that I love and do not want to lose?

Raymond J. de Souza

Hope, Father, Giving

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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

Jack Abbott

Night, Subjectivity, Ghost

Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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We are still tossed about by the disturbances of this life, which is like a stormy sea, where those who are not attached to J[esus] C[hrist] and the duties of their state, as was our dear departed, are shipwrecked.

Vincent de Paul

Faith, Sea, Departed

Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1993). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”, New City Pr

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You say you are not happy in the Mission. That, in itself, is not a sign that God does not want you there. Perfect contentment is never to be found, in whatever place and condition one may be. This life is full of annoyances and troubles both of mind and of body; it is a state of continual agitation, which snatches peace of mind from those who think they possess it and eludes those who seek it. Did Our Lord lead an easy life?

Vincent de Paul

Faith, Thinking, Perfect

Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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Peace is worth more than all worldly possessions; in addition, God rewards it even in this life.

Vincent de Paul

Wisdom, Rewards, Possession

Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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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. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.

Mark Twain

Death, Grateful, Grief

Autobiography ch. 49 (1959)

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And one thing to be remembered: it is not that the people who are poor, starving, become frustrated with life - no. They cannot become frustrated. They have not lived yet - how can they be frustrated? They have hopes. A poor man always has hopes that something is going to happen - if not today then tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow; if not in this life then in the next life.

Rajneesh

Men, People, Frustrated

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A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.

Louise Erdrich

Men, Body, Next

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Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. . . . Peace comes through hope.

James E. Faust

Challenges, Tests, Difficulty

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In this life, y'ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They're challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there're divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.

Brad Meltzer

Challenges, Soul, Battle

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To be reborn hourly and daily in this life, we need to die — to give of ourselves wholly to the demands of the moment, so that we utterly "disappear." Thoughts of past, present, or future, of life and death, of this world and the next, are transcended in the superabundance of the now. Time and timelessness coalesce: this is the moment of eternity.

Philip Kapleau

Past, Life And Death, Giving

"The Zen of Living and Dying: A Practical and Spiritual Guide".

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There is only one time that is important-Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary person is the one with whom you are, for no person knows whether he or she will ever have dealings with anyone else: and the most important affair is, to do the person good, because for that purpose alone were human beings sent into this life!

Wayne Dyer

Important, Purpose, Affair

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The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

Benjamin E. Mays

Tragedy, Life Is, Lows

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Connecting with those you know love, like and appreciate you restores the spirit and give you energy to keep moving forward in this life.

Deborah

Moving, Appreciate, Giving

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I have lived this life, and no matter what others may decide about it, I must claim each decision as mine. I have caused harm, failed in the expectations and obligations of love. I have loved well. What I do each day is carried within me until I die.

Meredith Hall

Expectations, Decision, Each Day

Meredith Hall (2007). “Without a Map: A Memoir”, p.217, Beacon Press

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Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.

Thomas Browne

Flesh, Way, Moral

Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence”, p.64

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Everything in moderation, and there's a perfect balance in this life if we can find it.

Ryan Robbins

Perfect, Balance, Moderation

AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com.

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Of all the hurdles you will need to face in this life time the hardest will be your self imposed limitations

Jan Hellriegel

Self, Needs, Faces

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... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Christian, Stress, Animal

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I am no longer the left behind. I am the living. And I want everything this life has to offer. I stop for a second and look around at all the shops and stores and stalls. At all the people, going about their days, at all the moments they're living. This is what I want. I want to live every moment. I want to feel everything.

Daisy Whitney

People, Looks, Want

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