Life Quotes - Page 23

• We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

  Jodi Picoult

  Challenges, Now And Then, Mess

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play.

  Eugene Fitch Ware

  Hands, Games, Play

  Eugene Fitch Ware (1899). “Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill [pseud.]: (A Book of Moods.) ...”

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• There is enough time in every day to do God's work...in God's way.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Inspirational, Enough Time, Way

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• You're just a prayer away from a change of heart.

  Henry R Brandt

  Prayer, Heart, Change Of Heart

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• Finding relief in your problem is fine, but it will not cure the problem.

  Henry R Brandt

  Relief, Problem, Cures

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• My environment can give me relief from sin and tension, only the Lord can cure it.

  Henry R Brandt

  Giving, Relief, Sin

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• If it's sin, that's good news! Sin is the simplest thing in the world to deal with.

  Henry R Brandt

  News, World, Sin

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• There's no human remedy for sin.

  Henry R Brandt

  Sin, Remedy, Humans

  Henry R. Brandt, Kerry L. Skinner (1995). “The Word for the Wise: Making Scripture the Heart of Your Counseling Ministry”, B & H Publishing Group

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• Jesus wants to give you peace.

  Henry R Brandt

  Jesus, Giving, Want

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• You would think that everyone would leap at the chance to get rid of sin. Not so. They want relief not a cure.

  Henry R Brandt

  Thinking, Sins Not, Relief

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• Your walk with God does not depend on people, places, things or events.

  Henry R Brandt

  People, Events, Doe

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• You dont have a marriage problem, you have a sin problem.

  Henry R Brandt

  Problem, Sin, Marriage Problems

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• I am a victim of my own behavior.

  Henry R Brandt

  Behavior, Victim, My Own

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• God's children have a limitless supply of the fruit of the Spirit.

  Henry R Brandt

  Children, Fruits Of The Spirit, Limitless

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• In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

  Horace

  Dawn, Care, Lasts

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• The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.

  Horace

  Home, Night, Shade

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• Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means.
  [Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre.]

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Mean, Years, Doe

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• The very life which we enjoy is short.
  [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]

  Sallust

  Enjoy

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• No one has become immortal by sloth; nor has any parent prayed that his children should live forever; but rather that they should lead an honorable and upright life.
  [Lat., Ignavia nemo immortalis factus: neque quisquam parens liberis, uti aeterni forent, optavit; magis, uti boni honestique vitam exigerent.]

  Sallust

  Children, Parent, Forever

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• Live in such a way as, when you come to die, you will wish to have lived.
  [Ger., Lebe, wie Du, wenn du stirbst,
  Wunschen wirst, gelebt zu haben.]

  Christian Furchtegott Gellert

  Wish, Way, Dies

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• The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

  Kirby Larson

  Heart, Caring, Choices

  Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.162, Yearling

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• Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

  Jonathan Larson

  Basketball, Regret, Missing

  "Rent". Musical by Jonathan Larson, 1996.

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• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Graduation, Work

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

  James Joyce

  Inspirational, Running, Home

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.329, GENERAL PRESS

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• Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Thinking, Inspire, Okay

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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