“Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us.” Life IsPurposeViewsGainsAbuseSlaveThis LifeDrains Author:Frederick Lenz
“I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying.” SeemsLossBirthGainsFortuneGlassesThis LifeSteadyGood Fortune Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Let me give you a definition in brief. Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father, passing the angels who stand as sentinels, being enabled to give them the key words, the signs and tokens, pertaining to the holy Priesthood, and gain your eternal exaltation in spite of earth and hell” GivingEarthFatherHouseWalksLordHellKeysHolyEternalAngelGainsLet MeDefinitionsPassingPassingsThis LifeSpitePriesthoodTokensDepartedEndowmentExaltationOrdinancesSentinels Author:Brigham Young
“The person who truly wishes to be healed is he who does not refuse treatment. This treatment consists of the pain and distress brought on by various misfortunes. He who refuses them does not realize what they accomplish in this world or what he will gain from them when he departs this life.” WorldPersonsDoeChristianPainWishRealizingThis WorldGainsVariousRefuseAccomplishChristian LifeThis LifeTreatmentOrthodoxMisfortunesDistressHealed Author:Maximus the Confessor
“One's entire life - his mental state, his health, his relationships, the material gains that he may or may not make - are all effects which have been set in motion by causes to be found somewhere in one's background, in this life or previous ones.” MayHas BeensStatesPastFoundCausesHealingEffectsMaterialsGainsBackgroundsThis LifePast Life Author:Brad Steiger
“They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.” MenGivingMeanGainsTreasureThis LifeInsultLoadIgnominy Author:Ignatius of Loyola
“When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age, for we all had nothing to lose and a vision to gain. Today it is not quite the same. It is a time of tons of verbiage, activity, consumption. Which condition is better for the world at large I shall not venture to discuss. But I do know, that many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. We must all hope we find them.” KnowsMenWorldArtAgeTodayGrowsLosesSilenceVisionConditionsActivityGainsRootsLonelyCriticsDrivenGoldenThis LifePocketsConsumptionVentureGalleryNo MoneyCollectorsGolden AgeNothing To Lose Author:Mark Rothko
“Happiness--a small-scale, endearing, harmonious happiness--surely dwelt here beneath the low-powered lamps in the tiny rooms of these houses. A small-scale happiness and a modest harmony: let a man cry out, let him rage, let him howl with grief with all the power of which he was capable, what more than these could he ever hope to gain in this life?” MenHouseRoomsGriefCryCapableLowsGainsHarmonyRageTinyScalesThis LifeModestLampsHarmoniousHowlEndearing Book:The waiting years Source: The waiting years
“Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life.” WantBelieveI CanMomentsLightJoyPerfectGreatnessDivineConsequenceGainsAvailableInsightSupremeAdmireThis LifeContemplationAttributesAdoreBoundlessPonderingExaminingInvestigatingClouded Author:Rene Descartes
“For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.” WorldFirstsIndividualAtheismThis WorldBuddhismGainsFirst TimeSalvationThis LifeWorld HistoryAgnosticism Author:Aldous Huxley