“I have suffered great losses and have been blessed with great consolations, but whatever life may give me or take away, this is the simple wisdom that will always light my life: I have loved, passionately, fearlessly, with all my heart and all my soul, and I have been loved in return. For me, this is enough.”
Source: Miracle In The Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
“I wanted to live. I wanted to love. But more than anything, I wanted to be where I was always meant to be. I wanted to go home.”
Source: Amber & Dusk
“There is no afterlife,
because there is no after,
there is only life now.
To live life conquering fear,
is the ultimate divine vow.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Fiction transcends life truths in a manner that makes them inviting so that we might see life’s truths in a manner that makes them compelling.”
“To have wants and needs means to be alive.”
Source: Thoughts: God, Science, & Human Nature
“It’s quiet for a second and so I start to think. About how people take from each other. They take and take. Our world itself is a great big taking. And life is just giving. We give away everything we have, one day at a time, until we can’t give no more.
I guess that’s the price of living.”
Source: A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
“Spiritual maturity results from practicing truth in everyday life, not from knowing truth in one's mind.”
Source: Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: How to Help Others Change
“There’s nothing that makes you feel more alive than the certainty of death.”
Source: The Last Devil to Die
“What we do ‘with’ life is what we’re doing ‘to’ life.”
“[..] said Sarah's broken and cynical mother, who for all her superior experience of life knew nothing about how to live.”
Source: Trust Exercise