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Life Quotes by Joan D. Chittister
- It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money can out us out of…
- Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the way…
- A seeker searched for years to know the secret of achievement and success in human life. One night in a dream a sage appeared bearing…
- I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality…
- Lent is the time for trimming the soul and scrapping the sludge off a life turned slipshod. Lent is about taking stock of time, even…
- Life is the ability to start over again.
- Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it ends. Life is…
- Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people around them do,…
- Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get…
- Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time. It is the…
- Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more likely, for shock.…
- Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday.
- We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is
- Life is an exercise in the development of feeling. When we repress feelings, we become sour and judgmental. When we live awash in great feeling…
- "Ideals are like stars," Carl Schurz wrote. "You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like seafarers on the desert of waters,…
- Peace comes from living a measured life. Peace comes from attending to every part of my world in a sacramental way. My relationships are not…
- The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life,…
- We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again.
- There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult periods of life,…
- Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing…
- It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up.…
- There is always new life trying to emerge in each of us. Too often we ignore the signs of resurrection and cling to part of…
- Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life.
- Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective. We learn to…
- I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist…
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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