There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
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There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
If you listen to your soul you will know what is "best" for you, because what is best for you is what is true for you.
Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference.
It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.
Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.
It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no one dreams you are praying, and the reward comes openly, a revival here, a blessing there.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.
I that have love and no more_x000D_ _x000D_ Give you but love of you, sweet;_x000D_ _x000D_ He that hath more, let him give;_x000D_ _x000D_ He that hath wings, let him soar;_x000D_ _x000D_ Mine is the heart at your feet_x000D_ _x000D_ Here, that must love you to live.
Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.
It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you'll see there's a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.
Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.
I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted.
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