This Life Quotes - Page 35

• What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.

  Fred Rogers

  Mean, Helping Others, Winning

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• God is good. He is eager to forgive. He wants us to perfect ourselves and maintain control of ourselves. He does not want Satan and others to control our lives. We must learn that keeping our Heavenly Father's commandments represents the only path to total control of ourselves, the only way to find joy, truth, and fulfillment in this life and in eternity.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Father, Perfect, Joy

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• This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Storm, Shelter

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• Kindness and a good heart are the foundation for success in this life, progress on the spiritual path, and the fulfillment of our aspirations. Our need for them is not limited to any specific time, place, society, or culture.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Kindness, Heart

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• Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!

  Tom Robbins

  Sugar, Life Is, Intimacy

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• Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.

  Max Lucado

  Conviction, God Knows, Knows

  Max Lucado (2014). “One God, One Plan, One Life: A 365 Devotional”, p.172, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• May you be children of God, pure and unblameable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation (cf. Phil. 1:15): and may you never be entangled in the snares of the wicked that go round about, or bound with the chains of your sins. May the Word in you never be smothered with the cares of this life and so make you unfruitful: but may you walk in the King's Highway, turning aside neither to the right hand nor to the left, but led by the Spirit through the narrow gate.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Kings, Children

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• Every individual matters and has a role to play in this life on Earth.

  Jane Goodall

  Play, Roles, Earth

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• Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Together, Remember

  Autobiography ch. 49 (1959)

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• We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.

  Fred Rogers

  Choices, Creative, Television

  Fred Rogers (2004). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, Large Print Press

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• It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Men, Medicine

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan (1960). “Career of the Reformer”

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• All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.

  George Whitefield

  Struggle, Looks, Sides

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• The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

  Dorothy Day

  Mistake, Play, Safe

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• Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

  H. G. Wells

  Book, Men, Shining

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Death, Regret, Fall

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• In this life, if you don't celebrate yourself, nobody will.

  Kevin Smith

  Celebrate, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Kevin Smith from Jan 05, 2012

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• Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.

  Rick Warren

  Stories, Happy Endings, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Aug 05, 2013

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• There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

  Brian Andreas

  Forever, Moments, Too Short

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• People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself.

  Leon Brown

  People, Broken, Promise

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• I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Opportunity, Giving, Opportunities To Learn

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• Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes; wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Fields, Gone

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2087, Manonmani Publishers

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• Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Humanity, Secret

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• Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!

  J. C. Ryle

  Blessed, Stranger, Pilgrim

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.195, Editora Dracaena

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• Do you ever wonder why often you can't have the things you want most? Perhaps if you got them in this life, they would distract you from Him. Perhaps He withholds some things that you love in this life to keep your heart from being distracted...and then gives those things to you in the next. Forever.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Giving, Forever

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• There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto-God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.

  Dorothy Allison

  Believe, Healing, Literature

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.121, Open Road Media

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