“An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.” IfsLifeGivingLooksSelfUseRealityBeautifulSuccessBehindsFrontsExampleHugeMiseryVanityHidingBehind YouSelf AbsorbedPeacock Author:Pope Francis
“The lessons you are meant to learn are in your work. To see them, you need only look at the work clearly - without judgment, without need or fear, without wishes or hopes. Without emotional expectations. Ask your work what it needs, not what you need. Then set aside your fears and listen, the way a good parent listens to a child” WayLifeInspirationalNeedsLooksChildrenBeautifulAsksWishParentEmotionalLessonsJudgmentExpectationsExperienceGood Parent Author:David Bayles
“To fully enjoy life, to derive its greatest meaning and beauty, one needs to enter into it with not only the look of involvement and happiness, but the spirit of involvement as well.” LifeNeedsWellsLooksSpiritEnjoyEnjoy LifeInvolvement Author:Luci Swindoll
“So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all the pain and the struggle.” LifeInspirationalLooksReasonEarthPainForgetStruggleInspirational LifeSymbolsPassagesCalendarsPassage Of Time Book:Walk in Balance: Meditations with Lynn Andrews Source: Walk in Balance: Meditations with Lynn Andrews
“If you're going to condemn a people based on the actions of the worst of its ranks; take a good look at the worst of your people first and judge yourself.” PeopleIfsLifeFirstsLooksActionWorstJudgingLooking Good Author:Derek R. Audette
“How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I'm wife! stop there!” ThinkingLifeLooksKindSeemsEarthPainGirlHeavenBehindsKindnessWifeComfortCompareOddEclipseThat Girl Book:Poems (EasyRead Comfort Edition) Source: Poems (EasyRead Comfort Edition)
“How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.” LifeLooksChildrenLittlesBigsSeemsAbleGrowsBoysGoneGrowing UpStrangeWindColdMarriedLandscapeOver ItRetirementRetiringBeing MarriedProcessionCold Wind Book:Feast of Stephen Source: Feast of Stephen
“Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.” LifeLooksLittlesLife IsLyingWaitingObviousMathematicalTrapsWildnessExactitude Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.” KnowsLifeWellsLooksNextRocksDangerOne DayMortalsPerplexity Author:Sophocles