This Life Quotes - Page 15

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

Yoshida Kenko

Life, Regret, Sky

Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrow currently assail us aren't worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Christian, Hope, Heart

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Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.

Penn Jillette

Atheist, Sex, Believe

"There Is No God". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.

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As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.

Gautama Buddha

Flower, Wreaths, Done

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Gautama Buddha

Life, Dream, Shadow

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To me, jennah is the place where you get to be with the people you love, including those you can't always be with in this life. And being with them forever.

Yasmin Mogahed

Islamic, People, Forever

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Stop trying to make this life into what it cannot and never was intended to be: jennah. Only then will it stop breaking your heart.

Yasmin Mogahed

Islamic, Heart, Trying

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Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.

Yasmin Mogahed

Pain, Real, Islamic

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Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?

Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

Grief, Islamic, Two

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No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

Inspirational, Life, Appreciation

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It's not always about survival, this life we are given; it's usually so much easier than that. It's about trusting the eternal life force that is flowing within us-letting that force lead the way through all of the inevitable changes we will face across the span of our time here on Earth.

Elizabeth Lesser

Inspirational, Survival, Inevitable Change

Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.291, Random House

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To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.

Gautama Buddha

Inspiring, Wise, Sweet

Gautama Buddha (2017). “Zen Kittens”, p.136, Mango Media Inc.

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But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.

Timothy Keller

God, Pain, Joy

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.47, Penguin

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In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where the aching longing to be somewhere else, out of this city, out of this country, out of this body and out of this life, is kept at bay.

Christos Tsiolkas

Country, Song, Play

Christos Tsiolkas (1995). “Loaded”, Random House Australia

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So I go to the studio, and just say, 'Hi Paul, it's me, Rusty.' I think I kept it together pretty well, although I was pretty nervous. And before the day is over I'm playing guitar, and there's Paul McCartney over there, playing his Hofner bass and singing. All I can do is think, 'This life is so so bizarre.'

Rusty Anderson

Thinking, Guitar, Singing

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Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.

Rene Descartes

Believe, Perfect, Joy

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I wake up in the morning, put on my face. The one that's going to get me through another day. Doesn't really matter...how I feel inside. This life is like a game sometimes. When you came around me the walls just disappeared. Nothing to surround me and keep me from my fears. I'm unprotected. See how I've opened up? You've made me trust.

Avril Lavigne

Morning, Wall, Fall

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It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.

Tomas Transtromer

Thank You, Real, Choices

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Each one of us will travel a different road during this life. Each progresses at a different rate. Temptations that trouble your brother may not challenge you at all. Strengths that you possess may seem impossible to another. Never look down on those who are less perfect than you. Don't be upset because someone can't sew as well as you, can’t throw as well as you, can't row or hoe as well as you. We are all children of our Heavenly Father. And we are here with the same purpose: to learn to love Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Brother, Children, Father

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While most of our suffering is self- inflicted, some is caused by or permitted by God. This sobering reality calls for deep submissiveness, especially when God does not remove the cup from us. In such circumstances, when reminded about the premortal shouting for joy as this life's plan was unfolded (Job 38:7), we can perhaps be pardoned if, in some moments, we wonder what all the shouting was about.

Neal A. Maxwell

Jobs, Reality, Self

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Music has become really important now. It's helped me to open up more and take a chance on loving people. Music is a good reason to care. It's just a vehicle though. It's a way to try and give somebody something that you feel. If trying the best I can isn't good enough, I'll just have to try harder next time...it's all I can do. If I do the best I can, then at least I did the best I could in this life The way I like to look at it is....if that's the last time /I ever got to play, I'd better give it everything I've got.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Play, People, Giving

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I hope Limitless.. and its this Limitless hope that pushes me forward to live this Life..!!!

Abhijeet Sawant

Limitless

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No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.

Bill Courtney

Grace, Deeds, Favors

Bill Courtney (2014). “Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love”, p.187, Weinstein Publishing

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I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

Sarah Louise Delany

Learning, Prejudice, Wanted

Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.72, Kodansha America

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God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because in his will he is united to God. At the same time, in His goodness he is merciful to the sinner and by chastising him in this life brings him back to the path of virtue. Similarly, a man of good and dispassionate judgment also loves all men equally. He loves the virtuous man because of his nature and the probity of his intention; and he loves the sinner, too, because of his nature and because in his compassion he pities him for foolishly stumbling in darkness.

Maximus the Confessor

Christian, Men, Compassion

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