A Quotes
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“A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.”
“A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.”
Source: The Memory of Love
“A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators.”
“A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may.”
Source: Epicurean Simplicity
“A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.”
Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings
“A life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives... that is the miracle of marriage.”
Source: Love in the Western World
“A life as long as the Minotaur's - that half-man half-bull, and fully scapegoat - a life that long doubles back on itself from time to time. Caves in. The minuscule tectonics of being alive, among the wholly human, always unsettling. The world shifts continuously beneath his feet. The Minotaur came from misspent want, from the planked birth canal, came from blood-drenched stone walls, from yellow thread. Belayed by desire, the beast pulled himself along. Pulled himself through centuries, through zeitgeists and kitchens, through paradigms and junkyards. Pulls still. Home.”
Source: The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time
“A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied”
“A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering.”
“a life can change in a tenth of
a second.
or sometimes it can take
70
years.”
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
“A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.”
“A life can’t be replicated and it doesn’t need to be.”
Source: Bravey
“A Life Centered on Sensuality Not Only Brings Distress to Oneself, It’s Also A Disservice to Others Involved in The Relationship Or In The Team”.”
“A life changing event comes when we are not looking.Inspired and blessed are we by the presence of Eckart Tolle among us.Thank you is not enough but know that my heart is filled with Joy!Rev. Rina A González”
“A life coach? What does that mean? It doesn’t mean anything, does it?
So they ‘coach’ people on how to live their lives? Why don’t they mind their own fucking business? They only call themselves life coaches because they can’t get a job. Because they’re unemployable. And they haven’t got any qualifications either. Do you think they went to Uni to study life coaching? Of course they didn’t.
And who do they coach anyway? Do people go to them and ask to be coached on their lives? I hardly think so. They’d see a psychiatrist or a psychologist or someone with a bit of clout, wouldn’t they?
They don’t coach anybody at all, do they? They’ve made it all up.
So, there you have it. At the bottom end of the otherworldly, metaphysical scale, even less developed spiritually than Orphans or Horace, are Life Coaches.”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable.”
Source: The Will to Doubt
“A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.”
“A life dedicated to family, friends, community, and whole humanity is a life well spent.”
“A life devoid of affection is like a tree devoid of bloom or fruit.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“A life devoid of love and affection is worthless.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.”
Source: Mysticism and Logic
“A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.”
“A life devoted to the acquisition of wealth is useless unless we know how to turn it into joy; and this is an art that requires culture and wisdom. A succession of sensual pursuits never satisfies for long; one must understand the ends of life as well as the art of acquiring means. "Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man is contributes more to his happiness than what he has”
“A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“A life does not have to be satisfying or triumphant. A life does not have to mean anything or lead anywhere. A life does not need a direction or a goal. But sometimes a person is lucky enough to have a life with all that anyway.”
Source: Alice Isn't Dead
“A life filled with excuses is defeated, unproductive, and miserable.”
“A life filled with opportunities and encouragement finds more and more opportunities and encouragement, and success becomes inevitable.”
Source: The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective
“A life filled with silly social drama and gossip indicates that a person is disconnected from purpose and lacking meaningful goals. People on a path of purpose don't have time for drama.”
“A life for a life- but what if the life offered as payment also meant losing three others? The thought alone was enough to steel me, anchor me.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“A life for a life, huh, Red?" He grins at me. "You broke me out of a cell once. Now it's my turn.”
Source: Incarnate
“A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.”
Source: Purpose in Prayer
“A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.”
Source: West with the Night
“A life hidden behind the veil of excuses leaves behind a blank page, but a life with the brilliant light of purpose shone upon it fills every page with wisdom.”
Source: The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
“A life I'd gladly give for what is living if there is no
Happiness, truth, feeling, nor love?
For surely as I was born of human blood
I am a creature of undeniable emotion that cannot be suppressed”
Source: With a Reckless Abandon
“A life I didn't choose
chose me: even
my tools are the wrong ones
for what I have to do.”
Source: Selected poems, 1950-1995
“A life I have lived and have found just that... life.”
Source: The Remnant: The Legend Of The Seer
“A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.”
“A life in Christ is a life of restfulness. There may be no ecstasy of feeling, but there should be an abiding peaceful trust. Your hope is not in yourself; it is in Christ. Your weakness is united to His strength, your ignorance to His wisdom, your frailty to His enduring might....Let the mind dwell upon His love, upon the beauty, the perfection of His character.”
Source: Steps to Christ—Illustrated
“A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
“A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death.”
“A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.”
“A life is a precious gift carefully wrapped. But if we never see it as a gift or worse yet we engage it as a troublesome burden, we won't believe that there is anything to unwrap. And I doubt that there are few things worse than living life but never embracing the gift of life.”
“A life is black, whiten it as you will.”
“A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP”
“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.”
“A LIFE IS LIVED LIKE A COURT CASE TRIAL. YOU END UP DEFENDING EVERY VALUE YOU EVER STOOD FOR”
“A life is long, and we are many people, variously, in our guises, in our situations, but some part of us is the same, and what I felt as a boy I find myself able to feel now -- a sad and powerful longing for a future that did not ever come, with all its attendant worries and fears.”