I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
—Thomas Jefferson
I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
The Church lives in a hostile world. The power of the Holy Spirit is, therefore, not optional but necessary. Without it the children of God simply cannot live the life of heaven on earth.
—AW Tozer
Yes, thank God, he has conquered Death and the grave; and you can shout now, “O grave, where is thy victory!” He went down into the grave and conquered it, and came up out of it; and now he says, “Because I live, ye shall live also.”
—D. L. Moody
We rowed with all our strength under the wise guidance of our father. We were hot from work and happy. Father sat with an oar in the stern – cheerful and strong. He felt like a savior of the drowning, a seafaring hero, Vasco da Gama. And although life sent him a puddle instead of an ocean, his soul was oceanic. And precisely because his soul would be enough for an entire ocean, Vasco da Gama sometimes could not stand this disproportion and sunk his ships in the tavern.
God is in man. He either is or he is not. But his complete absence is a big step back and down. In the future, people will come to him. Not to the priest, of course, and not to a parish. But to the divine in oneself. To the beautiful. To the immortal. And then there will be no depressing gray boredom, brutal, dull and boring, joyless everyday life.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
“If you make yourself a very reliable person and stay reliable all your life, faithfully doing whatever you engage to do, it will be very hard for you to fail at anything you want.”
— Charlie Munger
“Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.”
— Charlie Munger
“The world is not driven by greed. It’s driven by envy. I have conquered envy in my own life. I don’t envy anybody. I don’t give a damn what someone else has. But other people are driven crazy by it.”
— Charlie Munger
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
— Abraham Maslow
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
— Abraham Maslow
If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
— Abraham Maslow
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
— Abraham Maslow
Self-actualized people… live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.
— Abraham Maslow
One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
— Abraham Maslow
“The most powerful way to grow your money is learning to live with less, since you have complete control over it.”
— Morgan Housel
A person who doesn’t recognize the beneficence of suffering has not yet begun to live a rational, real life.
—Leo Tolstoy
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.
And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other “higher” ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
God by His Spirit must change the hearts of the people, if they are to walk in His ways, and keep His ordinances and statutes. The Spirit of the Lord alone works the true, spiritual, and moral life.
—Herman Bavinck
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up.
Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Do what your body demands of you—attain glory, honor, wealth—and your life will be a hell. Do what your soul demands of you—attain humility, mercy, love—and you’ll have no need of any heaven. Heaven will be in your soul.
—Leo Tolstoy
Do what your body demands of you—attain glory, honor, wealth—and your life will be a hell. Do what your soul demands of you—attain humility, mercy, love—and you’ll have no need of any heaven. Heaven will be in your soul.
—Leo Tolstoy
You might be in prison, sick, or deprived of all possibility of external action, but your inner life continues: you can blame, condemn, envy and hate others, and you can replace these feelings with good ones. Every minute of your life is yours, and no one can take it from you.
—Leo Tolstoy
You might be in prison, sick, or deprived of all possibility of external action, but your inner life continues: you can blame, condemn, envy and hate others, and you can replace these feelings with good ones. Every minute of your life is yours, and no one can take it from you.
—Leo Tolstoy
No sooner does the soul begin to feel the life of a promise warming his heart, relieving, cherishing, supporting, delivering from fear, entanglements, or troubles, but it may, it ought to know that the Holy Ghost is there
—John Owen
No sooner does the soul begin to feel the life of a promise warming his heart, relieving, cherishing, supporting, delivering from fear, entanglements, or troubles, but it may, it ought to know that the Holy Ghost is there
—John Owen
Morality of itself, dear Sir, will never carry us to heaven; no, Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life.
—George Whitefield
“Where there is no love there will be no life; living lambs are not to be fed by dead men.”
– Charles Spurgeon
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young.
The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn’t help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young.
The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn’t help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky