Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes. They're belief systems that keep you from being able to become all that you are intended to become. They're impediments to reaching God-realization, or Tao-centeredness. People lose track of their purpose, because they are so back there - living in their past. Byron Katie speaks about this: Who would you be without your story? Carlos Castaneda used to say if you don't have a story, you don't have to live up to it. So get rid of your story.
I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.
Everything in man should halt in awe. . . Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.
If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where to look and did so with alacrity; you found the defect and knew how to cure it. But the thing within you, the secret mainspring that alone gave meaning to life, the thing within us that alone is living, alone is capable of feeling pleasure and pain, of craving happiness and experiencing it- that was unknown. You knew nothing about that, nothing at all, and if the mainspring failed there was no cure. Wasn't it insane?
We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.
Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.
What do I want? I want to accelerate my personal evolution. I want Spirit to assist me in a greater capacity. I want my body to regenerate itself. I want to emanate health. I am willing to give up difficulty so that I can be a living example of what humanity can be.
If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.
The essence of all health begins through joyful living.
We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance.
What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!
The reason women are always reluctant to reveal their age is because other people label them as 'past it'. In the 21st century, women over 60 are not past it - we are vital, active, sexual beings, living life to the full.
Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is forgotten.
I am thoroughly convinced that when the last chapter of humanity is written, we will find that the implications of atheism, i. e. , living without God, if consistently carried through, will have made life plainly unlivable within the limits of reason or even common sense
I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!
The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.
And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.
When you're making your living as a writer or an artist or a musician, you kind of live in a trance. You're sort of in the day-to-day world, you're certainly there for your day-to-day relationships with people, and so on.