quoth/tag/life

Quote #3208

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:33:59 -0700

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
Movie: Braveheart

Quote #3206

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:50:21 -0700

Life is a MMORPG. Grind. Level Up. Conquer the world.
- VIRGIL.GRiffith

Quote #3202

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:27:02 -0700

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
- Voltaire

Quote #3200

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:41:57 -0700

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

- Christopher Morley
Speech:

Quote #3193

Tue, 11 May 2010 16:57:32 -0700

We live with the choices we make.
- Mihai Ocneanu
Speech: Craiova 2009

Quote #3149

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:20:46 -0700

The more we really appreciate the noble revulsion and renunciation of Buddha, the more we see that intellectually it was the converse and almost the contrary of the salvation of the world by Christ. Indeed it was so genuinely the converse of the idea of the Cross as the Tree of Life, that there is some excuse for setting up the two things side by side, as if they were of equal significance. They are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which the sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as a sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who will not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha.
- G. K. Chesterton (1933)
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Quote #3147

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:39:51 -0700

To understand the medieval controversy, a word must be said of the Catholic doctrine, which is as modern as it is medieval. That "GOD LOOKED ON ALL THINGS AND SAW THAT THEY WERE GOOD" contains a subtlety which the popular pessimist cannot follow, or is too hasty to notice. It is the thesis that there are no bad things, but only bad uses of things. If you will, there are no bad things but only bad thoughts; and especially bad intentions. But It is possible to have bad intentions about good things; and good things, like the world and the flesh have been twisted by a bad intention called the Devil. But he cannot make good THINGS bad; they remain as on the first day of creation. The work of heaven alone was material; the making of a material world. The making of hell is entirely spiritual.
- G. K. Chesterton (1933)
Book: St. Thomas Aquinas

Quote #3146

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:23:03 -0700

Although the West has its own contemplative tradition in the Catholic Church, the life of "sitting and look" has lost its appeal, for no religion is valued which does not "improve the world," and it is hard to see how the world can be improved by keeping still.

Yet it should be obvious that action without wisdom, without clear awareness of the world as it really is, can never improve anything. Furthermore, as muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.
- Alan Watts

Quote #3138

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:37:33 -0800

My life is my message.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Quote #3135

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:35:19 -0800

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Winston Churchill
Speech:

Quote #3128

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:22:05 -0800

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote #3124

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:54:34 -0800

Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother.
- Barbara Johnson

Quote #3123

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:52:56 -0800

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into some one else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
- John Rohn

Quote #3122

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:50:32 -0800

Living inspired is born in the awareness that this is it! We have but one chance at life, and the wonderful gift we are given each morning is the choice of how we are going to live that moment, that day.
- Sally Cofer-Lindberg

Quote #3096

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:39:20 -0800

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman

Quote #3095

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:35:36 -0800

A young man who wishes to remain an atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere - "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises" . . . .God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.
- C. S. Lewis
Book: Surprised by Joy (1955)

Quote #3094

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:26:45 -0800

Time by minutes slips away | first the hour and then the day | small
the daily loss appears| yet it soon amounts to years.
- Unknown
Inscribed over the door of the Indianapolis Public Library in Indiana

Quote #3091

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:22:35 -0800

This I say is the first and deadly error, which appears on every level of life and is equally deadly on all, turning religion into a self-caressing luxury and love into auto-eroticism.
- C. S. Lewis
Book: Surprised by Joy (1955)

Quote #3090

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:16:37 -0800

Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.
- C. S. Lewis
Book: Surprised by Joy (1955)

Quote #3087

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:43:48 -0800

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
- G. K. Chesterton
ILN, October 21, 1905, CW 27:41.

Quote #3072

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:13:36 -0700

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Book: Fight Club

Quote #3063

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:50:35 -0700

Really believe in your heart of hearts that your fundamental purpose, the reason for being is to enlarge the lives of others. Your life will be enlarged also. And all of the other things we have been taught to concentrate on will take care of themselves.
- Pete Thigpen

Quote #3060

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:11:41 -0700

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
- Plato

Quote #3046

Fri, 15 May 2009 07:31:39 -0700

I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact: that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber. (from Pascal's PensÃ¨es by 17th Century Christian Philosopher & Scientist, Blaise Pascal)

- Dallas Willard
Book: Renovation of the Heart, Pg 174

Quote #3040

Tue, 12 May 2009 15:04:30 -0700

The only certainty in life is death.
- Unknown

Quote #3037

Thu, 07 May 2009 04:06:57 -0700

To fight or to give up? This is it, the most basic and the hardest choice in life.
- The Captain
Video game: Cryostasis: The Sleep of Reason

Quote #3032

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:29:45 -0700

"If you take risks, you may still fail. But if you do not take risks, you will surely fail. The greatest risk of all is to do nothing." -Roberto C. Goizuet
- Dean Barber

Quote #3012

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:25:07 -0800

We look back upon history and what do we see, empires rising and falling, revolutions and counter- revolutions, wealth accumulated and wealth dispersed. Shakespeare has spoken of the rise and fall of great ones, that ebb and flow with the moon. I look back on my own fellow countryman in England, once upon a time dominating a quarter of the world. Most of them convinced in the words of what is still a popular song, that the god who made them mighty shall make them mightier yet. I've heard of a craze-cracked Austrian announce to the world the establishment of a Reich that would last a thousand years. I've seen an Italian clown saying he was going to stop and restart the calendar with his own ascension to power. I've heard of a murderous Georgian in the Kremlin acclaimed by the intellectual elite of the world as a wiser than Soloman, more humane than Marcus Aurelius, more enlightened than (any wise man). I have seen America wealthier, and in terms of military weapons, more powerful than the rest of the world put together. So had the American people so desired, they could have out done a Caesar or an Alexander in the range and scale of their conquest. All in one life time - all in one life time - all gone - gone with the wind. England, part of a tiny island of the coast of Europe, threatened with dismemberment and even bankruptcy. Hitler and Mussolini dead, remembered only in infamy. Stalin a forbidden name in the regime he help found and dominate for some three decades. All in one life time, all gone with the wind. Behind the debris of our self-styled-soloman supermen, there stands the gigantic figure of one person, because of whom, by whom, in whom and through whom alone, mankind may still have hope - - the person of Jesus Christ. (And I present him to you as the veritas, the Truth - - and it does matter because the truth does.)

Quoting: British Journalist, Malcom Muggeridge (1903 to 1990)

- Ravi Zacharias
Speech: The Harvard Veritas Forum (1992)

Quote #3011

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:46:37 -0800

Western culture is, largely unbeknown to itself, is a culture of rejection. And rejection, no matter how old one is, is a sword thrust to the soul that has literally killed many.
- Dallas Willard
Book: Renovation of the Heart (2002)

Quote #2997

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:30:03 -0800

All truth is one. In this light may science and religion endeavor here for the
steady evolution of mankind. From darkness to light, from narrowness to
broad-mindedness, from prejudice to tolerance, it is the voice of life, which
calls us to come and learn.
- Cuthbert W. Pound

Quote #2947

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:09:46 -0700

A lot of my internal conflict and malaise comes from the tension between the life I ACTUALLY want to live, and the stories I'd love to be able to tell.
- T. Rex
Comic: Dinosaur Comics

Quote #2939

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:18:17 -0700

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain

Quote #2914

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:51:16 -0700

Kierkegaard's definition of truth is the objective uncertainty, held fast through appropriation with the most passionate inwardness, is the truth, the highest truth there is for an existing person.

The definition of truth stated above is a paraphrasing of faith. Without risk, no faith. Faith is the contradiction between the infinite passion of inwardness and the objective uncertainty. If I am able to apprehend God objectively, I do not have faith; but because I cannot do this, I must have faith. If I want to keep myself in faith, I must continually see to it that I hold fast the objective uncertainty, see to it that in the objective uncertainty I am 'out on 70,000 fathoms of water' and still have faith.
- Michael Watts
Book: Kierkegaard

Quote #2911

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:43:55 -0700

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

- John Burroughs

Quote #2895

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:33:35 -0700

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein

Quote #2877

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:39:09 -0700

I went to the woods because I wished to live life deliberately, to confront only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau
Book: Walden

Quote #2853

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:27:34 -0700

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote #2852

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:31:37 -0700

All people should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
- James Thurber

Quote #2844

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:56:52 -0700

I have lived and will always live, my life as it can be lived at its best, with art, music, poetry, literature, science, philosophy, and thought. I shall know the keener people of this world, think the keener thoughts, and taste the keener pleasures, as long as I can and as much as I can. That's the real practical use of self-education and self-culture. It converts a world which is only a good world for those who can win at its ruthless game into a world good for all of us. Your education is the only thing that nothing can take from you in this life.
- friend of Roland Gross's
Book: The Independent Scholar’s Handbook

Quote #2842

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:51:10 -0700

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
- Henry Miller

Quote #2839

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:16:32 -0700

We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.
Movie: The Bucket List

Quote #2833

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:29:06 -0700

Live as if you will die tomorrow but learn as if you will live forever.
- Ghandi

Quote #2828

Thu, 29 May 2008 07:17:09 -0700

And where does a newborn go from here? The net is vast and infinite. -
- Puppetmaster
Movie: Ghost in the Shell

Quote #2827

Sun, 25 May 2008 10:05:19 -0700

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living and doesn't teach them how to live.
- Charles Snitow

Quote #2826

Wed, 21 May 2008 07:58:27 -0700

Don't you enjoy being alive? Don't you like feeling: This is me, this is my hand, this is my leg, I'm real, I'm solid, I'm alive! Don't you like this?
- George Orwell
Book: 1984

Quote #2806

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:37:57 -0800

Despair is a mortal sin.
- William F. Buckley
Article: May We Not Lose His Kind by Peggy Noonan (A tribute to Wlm. F. Buckley at his death)

Quote #2805

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:34:16 -0800

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain

Quote #2780

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:39:11 -0800

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
- Oscar Wilde

Quote #2775

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:12:08 -0800

Those living on the bleeding edge tend to bleed a lot
Speech: Anonymus

Quote #2745

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:21:09 -0700

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
- C. S. Lewis
Speech: Chip Ingram