A Quotes
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“A life of both sadness and blissfulness is multi-dimensional; it moves in all dimensions together. Watch the statue of Buddha or sometimes look into my eyes and you will find both together - a blissfulness, a peace, a sadness also.”
“A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.”
“A life of conflict and greediness causes a person to suffer from the rheumatism of sadness.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A life of constant victory is the result of correct thinking”
“A life of convenience is a life that we conveniently threw away.”
“A life of detachment from greed and desires allows a person to appreciate the truly marvelous part of being alive. I cannot acquire the most sublime pleasures of life with money, force, or industry. I must learn to listen to the song of the wind, rejoice in the drumming patter of fine rain falling in a leafy forest, and delight in witnessing the coming of autumn when the leaves turn into orange and red flames. I seek sincerity of being. I hope to find comfort in a modest meal and cultivate joy by witnessing the birthing and playfulness of the young. I am no longer interested in the practical matters that businesspeople attend, exhibit no attentive awareness of political, cultural, or social affairs, and do not wish to inject myself into the warring conflicts of world.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A life of doing nothing is good for old men,
especially if they are simple in their ways,
or stupid, or inane in their endless blabber
as old men tend to be.”
“A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.”
Source: Poems
“A life of faith is an enduring sacred-existence.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“A life of faith is one where we finally acknowledge that our compass never had a needle. And once we begrudgingly acknowledge that, we eventually own up to the fact that we never had a compass to put one in.”
“A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.”
“A life of fulfillment is one in which we put urgency in its place and remember that the ultimate target is to spend our lives doing the things we believe are most important to us.”
“A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.”
“A life of happiness, peace, and love is all within our grasp.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“A life of hardship and personal suffering is unavoidable. A person must endure many humiliations of the mind and body, and expect persons whom they trusted to someday betray them. People inevitably witness the death of their loved ones. We also witness acts of depravity committed by criminals that lurk in every society and rouge acts of scandal committed by government officials in charge of the public welfare. A person must nonetheless resist personal discouragement, sadness, dejection, and despondency. I must reach an accord with pain, suffering, and anguish, or forevermore be tortured by reality while constantly seeking to escape from the inescapable agony of being.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A life of hate is the same as a thousand deaths and a death in love is worth a thousand lives.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“A life of honor offers abundant rewards; a life of dishonor comes at a very steep price.”
Source: Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“A life of integrity is a life of stability.”
Source: Let's Be Honest: Living a Life of Radical, Biblical Integrity
“A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“A life of integrity usually begins with saying no to compromise, facing the truth and doing what is right, even when it is difficult. It’s been said that if you have integrity, nothing else matters. But it’s also true that if you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.”
“A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.”
Source: Joy and Peace: A Holy Condition
“A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.”
Source: The Heavenly City: A Spiritual Guidebook
“A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.”
Source: The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin
“A life of love is difficult, but it is not a bleak or unrewarding life. In fact, it is the only true human and happy life, for it is filled with concerns that are as deep as life, as wide as the whole world, and as far reaching as eternity. It is only when we have consented to love, and have agreed to forget ourselves, that we can find our fulfillment. This fulfillment will come unperceived and mysterious like the grace of God, but we will recognize it and it will be recognized in us.”
“A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.”
“A life of madness I have been living for fifteen years. I have thrown away everything I had, my devoted wife, two lovely children, my family, my wealth on a hopeless passion. My love that once glowed like a warm flame is gone. A fire burns inside me now. My love, instead of being upheld has been cast aside like dirt. I can weep all I want out of rage and self-loathing but the world will only laugh at the sight of me.”
Source: The Thugs & a Courtesan
“A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health, it may seem well enough. But how insufficient, how mean, how terrible when age comes, and sorrow, and death! A life of pleasure! What does it look like when these great changes beat against it--when the realities of eternity stream in? It looks like the fragments of a feast, when the sun shines upon the withered garlands, and the tinsel, and the overturned tables, and the dead lees of wine.”
“A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.”
Source: Fifty Poems
“A life of opulence is possible if you are open to achieving your big dreams in this world.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.”
“A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.”
“A Life of poverty is not as bad as it looks through the wealthy person's eye, neither is the life of the wealthy is as delightful as it looks through the poor's.”
Source: Stories Of Jivavarta
“A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.”
Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton
“A life of prayer is a praise of being.”
“A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.”
“A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.”
“A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“A life of service is a life well and greatly lived.”
“A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.”
“A life of significance is not something we possess, but something we embody—through the courage to be real, the grace to remain humble, the strength to endure, and the positive impact we leave on others.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“A life of solitude began anew, though free from restrictions, rich, smooth and easy”
Source: Artemisia
“A life of struggle spent in service is far greater than a life of comfort spent in self-obsession.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.”
“A “life of value,” as I see it, has two parts: The first is about one fulfilling oneself and finding meaning by prioritizing, or living the values that they authentically possess. When one’s life is consistent with what they truly value, then life just “feels right.” But beyond a more self-oriented approach to finding happiness and fulfillment, a good life is making positive differences to those in the family, the community, the country, and the world.”
Source: Wisdom: A Very Valuable Virtue That Cannot Be Bought
“A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.”
“A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.”
“A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.”
“A life of Wisdom must be a life of contemplation and action”
Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
“A life of work should not deprive women of the joy of motherhood, nor should motherhood deprive the world of her work.”