Quotes on Life

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.

I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have.

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.