life

"The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die."

"I just bought a small condo overlooking the water. The water is in a cup, one floor below my unit."

"If I could convert books to wine, I’d start with The Grapes of Wrath. I’ve never read it, but maybe tonight I’ll be thirsty enough."

"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."

"I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite."

"What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

"Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone."

"I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!"

"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."

"I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life."

"God never promised us a trouble-free life."

"Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy."

"The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same."

"If I offer you a glass of water, and bring back a cup of ice, I’m trying to teach you patience. And also that sometimes you get ice with no water, and later you’ll get water with no ice. Ah, but that’s life, no?"

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."

"Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall."

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."