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«In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign,does not declare,'That is mine!'»
«It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.»
«Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!»
«Is there life before death»
Author: George Gurdjief | About: Life
«It is really surprising sometimes how a prohibition seems to exist solely in order to be violated. And when I disobeyed I felt that what I did was pleasurable. For children such as I at that time - oh, how many prohibitions and restrictions were heaped on our heads! Yes, it was as though the whole world was watching us, bent forbidding whatever we did and what ever we wanted. Inevitably we children felt that this world was really intended only for adults.»
Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Writer) | About: Life
«In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.»
Author: Robert Frost | About: Change, Hope, Life, Perseverance | Keywords: sum, sum up
«Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity...»
«In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite variety and mystery of it.»
«It may come as a severe shock if you haven?t given much thought to this subject before?but our precious, cast-in-stone, ?objective? beliefs are often totally in contrast to any reality. Or, more accurately, they are our perception of reality, rather than reality itself.»
«Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Life | Keywords: embryo, in embryo