Quotes on Life

If you're lucky enough to be different, never change.

From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.

You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus.

I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds

She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.