“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”
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“I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.”
“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”
“If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
“Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.”
“It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.”
“It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.”
“Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.”
“Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.”
“A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.”
“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.”
“Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”
“Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.”
“The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'”
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.”
“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.”
“God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.”
“It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.”
“For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
“I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.”
“If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples even though some of them still look down on me.”
“God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.”
“If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.”
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”