Living Quotes - Page 16

I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.

With her enchanting songs, her rare beauty, and clever tricks, this wild 'wanderess' ensnared my soul like a gypsy-thief, and led me foolish and blind to where you find me now. The first time I saw her, fires were alight. It was a spicy night in Barcelona. The air was fragrant and free.

How do you live out God’s plan for your life? By living God’s way one day at a time.

There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything.

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.

In this world and the hereafter, we should not be afraid of no one but ourselves.

It's okay to be afraid, it means you have something to live for.

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

For each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving their young ones behind. Who feeds them, and who teaches them to feed themselves? Have you ever thought of this in your mind?

A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.

I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

Hate destroys, love builds: be a creator. Fear closes, love opens: be an advocate for life. Guilt stagnates, love permits: be a peaceful warrior. Anger takes away, love gives: be a foundation for life. A defeatist attitude makes its own bed while love has the power to design its very own house.

It’s not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it’s the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat.

[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)

Leave me, and go to another, but never stand alone

Reading is an addiction, much like living and breathing is an addiction.

There’s plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive center about which the poem circles.

Living for beauty is all very fine, but it’s a hard regimen and burns up the heart very quickly.

You don’t need a sad soul
to feel the beauty of a dead grave
Just stay with the pale moon
when darkness wants the night to be brave