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- To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want…
- If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
- Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
- One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.
- It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from…
- It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
- Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
- Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive... to…
- If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a…
- It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
- Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to…
- Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
- When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I'll leave it and become grateful again. But…
- Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.
- Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That…
- Remember this: Now is the only time you have. When God created the universe, it was now. You can't say to creation and energy, "I'll…
- God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an…
- Life is full of painful events, and people who have lost their way and hurt others. Our pain is not lessened when we respond with…
- Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people. The irony is that it is actually in…
- If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing your eyes and…
- Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties. How…
- The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal with them and what can we learn…
- Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.
- Life is a miracle, and we need to not fear trying to achieve our potential and reveal the remarkable creation we and all living things…
- Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle