This Life Quotes - Page 31

• If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Anxiety, Unhappy

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• [Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the gods and save your crops. And even Christianity, after all, insures heavily against the flaws in this life by belief in another.

  Rose Macaulay

  Sacrifice, Self, Belief

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Told by an Idiot”, p.39, A&C Black

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• The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

  Rose Macaulay

  Political, Synthesis, Moral

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• It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace--not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Heaven, Earth

  Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.194, Cambridge University Press

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• Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Heart, Loss, Doors

  Samuel Rutherford (1824). “Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition”, p.138

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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

  Life, Heart, Caring

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

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• Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.

  Virgil Miller Newton

  Growing Up, Tv Shows, Quality

  "Adolescence: Guiding Youth Through the Perilous Ordeal". Book by Miller Newton, 1995.

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• No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave what happens after you die till after you die.

  Brad Warner

  Matter, Our Future, Sensible

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.58, New World Library

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• Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told them he must go away. Though they could not understand it at the time, his departure was for their benefit. The same is true of the unexpected setbacks and tragedies we experience in this life...When I consider the times when I have been confounded by events that seemed so contrary to what I thought God wanted for me, I should be mindful that they were permitted by the Lord's inscrutable providence for my own good, as difficult as that might be to fathom.

  Patrick Madrid

  Jesus, Joy, Sorrow

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• But I don't think any parent can expect to escape this life without disappointing his child at some point. And the same could be said the other way around. We all of us fall short now and again, and disappoint someone dear to us, or ourselves. Thankfully, my parents have always been the forgiving sort.

  Julie Klassen

  Children, Fall, Thinking

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• Humanism is an approach to life which encourages ethical and fulfilling living on the basis of reason and humanity, and rejects superstition and religion. The most immediate impact of living as a Humanist is that we believe this life is all there is - so what we do and the choices we make really count.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Impact, Choices

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• Humanism inspires a lot of enthusiasm for everyday life and urges people to be better to one another, to work towards a better future and a common good. If I believed there was an afterlife I would have so much less motive for filling this life with every experience that is offered up to me.

  Stephen Fry

  Afterlife, People, Inspire

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• I believe love is the most powerful energy we have in this life. Everything is about love.

  Juanes

  Powerful, Believe, Love Is

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• God is merely tuning the soul, as an instrument, in this life. And these joys of the Christian, are only the notes and chords that are sounded out in the preparation--preludes to the perfect harmony that shall flood the soul--forerunners of the perfected and rapturous joy that shall bless the soul, in that exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

  Herrick Johnson

  Christian, Perfect, Joy

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being.

  Frederic Henry Hedge

  Death, Birth, Embryos

  Frederic Henry Hedge (1866). “Reason in Religion”, p.155

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• All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

  Smiley Blanton

  Destiny, Succeed, Doe

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• Had Christ not risen we could not believe Him to be what He declared Himself when He "made Himself equal with God." But He has risen in the confirmation of all His claims. By it alone, but by it thoroughly, is He manifested as the very Son of God, who has come into the world to reconcile the world to Himself. It is the fundamental fact in the Christian's unwavering confidence in "all the words of this life.

  B. B. Warfield

  Christian, Easter, Believe

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• In this life, nobody has forever in which to leave home, to return, to make a new home, or to open the door to someone. Death doesn't wait while we tidy everything up. And there are several kinds of dying.

  Jean Little

  Home, Doors, Waiting

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• This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy.

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Animal, Men, Garden

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• You don't come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy.

  Demi Moore

  Interview with Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2007.

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• If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

  Miranda July

  Letting Go, Wise, Trying

  Miranda July (2015). “The First Bad Man”, p.189, Canongate Books

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• Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Faithful, Guides

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.71

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• I'm just too busy living every day to really spend a lot of time thinking 'am I old?'  I'm this age.  I am in this moment and in this life.

  Emmylou Harris

  Thinking, Age, Busy

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• I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Perfect, Forever, Answers

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• My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.

  Tyler Perry

  Take Me

  "Perry's greatest accomplishment has nothing to do with business" By Andy Segal, www.cnn.com. July 23, 2009.

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