Devote Life Quotes

The devout life does not solely entail living as a monk or ascetic, though that is fine. The devout life requires bringing God into all things. ~ David Paul Kirkpatrick

Here's the three-ingredient recipe for a glorious day: think a higher thought, move your feet forward, serve someone you've never served. Do those three things and your life will improve in a millisecond. ~ Toni Sorenson

Stop waiting for life to show up. You don't live life by waiting for it to come to you; you live through actions. You want to travel? Then travel. You want to write? Then write. You want to live? Then live. Your life is in no one's hands but your own. If you want to do something, no one is stopping you except yourself. There isn't going to be a perfect moment, time, or opportunity: there is only now. You've been waiting for a sign? Here it is: to truly live, you actually have to participate. Get up and get going. Now. ~ Avina Celeste

Two damaged people, thrown together in a hostile world, doing their best. What else was there to life, in the end? ~ Stephen Baxter

Living creatures, if nothing else, have the right to life. It is their only truly precious possession, and the stealing of life is a wicked theft ~ Jack Vance

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is. ~ Cate Blanchett

There should always be a balance in life, and you must try to find that in yours. Then you might find the happiness you seek. ~ Lucinda Riley

In the 1970s, I identified as a lesbian and wrote about it. In 1991, I met the love of my life, married him. ~ Chirlane McCray

Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect. ~ Oscar Wilde

More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor ~ Bill W.

At one time, you think you're invincible. This just can't happen to you but, when it happens, the reality sets in that you either change or you die. You realize you've got only one life. ~ Ray Rhodes

There are going to be more moments in your life that you regret not doing than there will be moments you regret doing. So do them, and please, don't hold back. ~ Sophie Abbott

Mediocre individuals often try to mold you into an ordinary person like themselves. But it's not possible, just as it's impossible to fit the entire Universe into a pocket. ~ Sahara Sanders

The desire to possess is marked by an unceasingly growing, voracious element that manifests itself in the simple desire to have more, but also in the growing dependency on consumerist habits that people do not want to give up. The ego loses its benign distance from things to be used and is ruled by the urge to possess them. This rapidly infects other aspects of life. Like objects that one wants to have available, partners, relatives, and friends come to he seen as having to he possessed. ~ Dorothee Solle

You're your best friend and worst enemy. ~ Debasish Mridha

Will I fail or will I succeed and accomplish the unexpected? ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I knew that I had made my last journey in the Empty Quarter and that a phase in my life was ended. Here in the desert I found all that I asked; I knew that I should never find it again. But it was not only this personal sorrow that distressed me. I realized that the Bedu with whom I had lived and traveled, and in whose company I had found contentment, were doomed. Some people maintain that they will be better off when they have exchanged the hardship and poverty of the desert for the security of a materialistic world. This I do not believe. I shall always remember how often I was humbled by those illiterate herdsmen who possessed, in so much greater measure than I, generosity and courage, endurance, patience and lighthearted gallantry. Among no other people have I ever felt the same sense of personal inferiority. ~ Wilfred Thesiger

To be an uncommon woman is to do what's unnatural. Like streams in the desert, the uncommon woman has the capacity to find refreshment and be a source of refreshment no matter where life finds her. ~ Susie Larson

Why do that?" Mandi asked. "It seems like if you spent a bazillion dollars on a big house with a gorgeous view, you'd want to show it off." "The same reason that the Klingons have a cloaking device," Murphy answered. "I'm sorry, Murphy, I have a life." Mandi's tone was disdainful. ~ Bobby Adair

As soon as something stops being fun, I think it's time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy. Waking up stressed and miserable is not a good way to live. ~ Richard Branson

Without virtue, it is hard to bear the results of good fortune suitably. Those who lack virtue become arrogant and wantonly aggressive when they have these other goods. They think less of everyone else, and do whatever they please. They do this because they are imitating the magnanimous person though they are not really like him. ~ Aristotle On The Megalopsychos

When [what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at and what drives your economic engine] come together, not only does your work move toward greatness, but so does your life. For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then, you might gain that rare tranquility that comes from knowing that you've had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time here on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered. ~ James C. Collins

I am not a beginning. I am not an end. I am a link in a chain. ~ Keith Haring

Our lives are destined by the determination of our own principles. ~ Saleem Durrani

The more you try to force life to flow where you would like it to go, as opposed to where it wants to go, the less efficient you become and the more energy you use. ~ Richard Rudd

Sometimes you need to be alone in order to reflect on life. Take time out to take care of yourself. You deserve it. ~ Robert Tew

Allaah Tabaraka wa Ta`Ala {The Absolute Divine UnNamed} DOES NOT test to "See" if you're worthy of Jannaah or Jahannam ! If only one can perceive this, one knows it is one that places oneself in either station !! ~ AainaA-Ridtz

Success in life is not how well we execute Plan A; it's how smoothly we cope with Plan B. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

things you bone, end up boning you ~ Josh Stern

Life isn't about winning. But it's losing, and getting experience in life. ~ Maddie Lin

The work of poetry that it seemed she had been doing in her head for most of her life. ~ Alice Munro

I have to wonder if it isn't more accurate to say that life is a series of trap doors, and you fall through them, one by one, tumbling down and down and down, one hole to the next. ~ Ben H. Winters

The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life. ~ Francis Chan

When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades of our lives in exchange for stacks of paper with scratches and squiggles on them. And when Death calls, how many of us would trade all those pages, all that squandered lifetime-worth of painfully achieved scratches and squiggles, for just one more day, one more fully lived and experienced day? And what price would we writers pay for that one extra day spent with those we ignored while we were locked away scratching and squiggling in our arrogant years of solipsistic isolation?
Would we trade all those pages for a single hour? Or all of our books for one real minute? ~ Dan Simmons

I don't take it lightly that I brought a life into this world. They're waiting for you every day, these sweet little angels. You have to have time for them to interact on a daily basis. ~ Kelly Cutrone

Intellectual discussion, after all, is the real joy of the winter of life, when other pleasures have flown, as it were. ~ John Barth

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything. ~ James Boswell

But there was something more precious than his poems; something far away he didn't yet possess and longed for - manliness; he knew that it could only be attained by action and courage; and if courage meant courage to be rejected, rejected by everything, by the beloved woman, by the painter, and even by his own poems - so be it: he wanted to have that courage. And so he said:
"Yes, I know that the revolution has no need for my poems. I regret that, because I like them. But unfortunately my regret is no argument against their useless-ness.
Again there was silence, and then one of the men said: "This is dreadful," and he actually shuddered as if a chill had run down his spine. Jaromil felt the horror his words had produced in everyone there, that they were seeing in him the living disappearance of everything they loved, everything that made life worthwhile.
It was sad but also beautiful: within the space of an instant, Jaromil lost the feeling of being a child. ~ Milan Kundera