Disciplined Life Quotes

I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do. Once this becomes a habit, discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by doing the very things I now want to do! I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy
but only after we have worked hard to practice it. ~ John C. Maxwell

If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning ... and ask yourself whether this situation is truly God given. Because where God wants you to be, God holds you safe and gives you peace, even when there is pain. To live a disciplined life is to live in such a way that you want only to be where God is with you. The more deeply you live your spiritual life, the easier it will be to discern the difference between living with God and living without God, and the easier it will be to move away from the places where God is no longer with you. ~ Henri Nouwen

At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life he had always known would continue again, without him. The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past. ~ Lois Lowry

You have to plan it [your devotion to God] every day. And, the best time to plan it is before your day begins. If you don't plan it, your day will plan you. And so, I make a disciplined life of the study of the scriptures, reading the word every day. ~ Ravi Zacharias

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. ~ Jim Rohn

To live a disciplined life, and to accept the result of that discipline as the will of God - that is the mark of a man. ~ Tom Landry

to sustain these true moments of insight one has to be highly disciplined, lead a disciplined life, ~ Mason Currey

In life there will be so many pressing demands, and there will be a mass of pressure on you, but you must be so disciplined so that you can go through these things and come out victorious ~ Sunday Adelaja

In the last year of my presidency, I travelled 200 days out of 365. You have to lead a very disciplined life. To be able to do that, I need a lot of sleep. But I have no problems sleeping. On long days, I can easily take a nap for 20 minutes in the afternoon. ~ Martti Ahtisaari

Sitting there, all delicate and dreamy, she looked as if someone had only given half a life to her. ~ Jodi Lynn Anderson

So throw off all desires, remove all the dust from your eyes, be at ease within, not longing for something, not even for God. Every longing is the same, whether for a big car, or God, or a big house, makes no difference. Longing is the same. Don't long – just be. Don't even look – just be! Don't think! Let this moment be there, and you in it, and suddenly you have everything – because life is there. Suddenly everything starts showering on you, and then this moment becomes eternal and then there is no time. It is always the now. It never ends, never begins. But then you are in it, not an outsider. You have entered the whole, you have recognized who you are. ~ Osho

I have this theory that the more important and intimate the emotion, the fewer words are required to express it. For instance in dating: 'Will you go out with me?' Six words. 'I really care for you.' Five words. 'You matter to me' Four words. 'I love you.' Three words. 'Marry me.' Two words. Well, what's left? What's the one most important and intimate word you can ever say to somebody?
'Goodbye ... ' ~ J. Michael Straczynski

Live your life as an experiment. ~ Pema Chodron

Some journeys don't have endings, they lead to new beginnings. These are the journeys that lead to great adventures! ~ Alex Haditaghi

The natural power of breastfeeding is one of the greatest wonders of the world. It is about real love. It is about caring and celebrating the wondrous joy of nurturing a new life. It is about enjoying being a woman. ~ Anwar Fazal

Not all revolutionaries set out to change the world per se; some set out to change their own worlds. And in so doing, they often change the way one person, or a few people, or whole communities, or entire nations or the world thinks and operates in some significant way. ~ Anita Roddick

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down. ~ Sue Townsend

While you're doing fine, there's some people and I
Who have a really tough time getting through this life
So excuse us while we sing to the sky. ~ Twenty One Pilots

I will rest when I am dead. For now I have a life to live... ~ Kenneth G. Ortiz

He was on his knees before this female, and he'd gladly stay there for the rest of his life. ~ Lara Adrian

I have respected women from the beginning of my life. ~ Julio Iglesias

I've learned ... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life. ~ Andy Rooney

Firen didn't waste any time setting up the meeting with Egnatious. The following day she was in such a rush to tell me about it that she burst into my room without knocking and found Andrew and me in an intimate and compromising position reminiscent of the game Twister. Also, I cannot confirm or deny if there was food involved. Let's just say I toppled over in embarrassment, taking Andrew down with me in a great heap. Firen didn't fare any better, as she nearly knocked herself out when she ran into the doorframe in an attempt to escape. We were both scarred for life, especially after Firen apologized for walking in on our "naked fun time," which was apparently what Joseph called it. There were some things people should never know, and that was one of them. ~ Laura Kreitzer

I suspect I said nothing because I was doing what I have done most of my life, which is to cover for the mistakes of others when they don't know they have embarrassed themselves. I do this, I think, because it could be me a great deal of the time. ~ Elizabeth Strout

There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found. ~ Bede Griffiths

Our past doesn't define us, rather, it's the courses we take after that tells us who we really are. ~ Jocelyn Sanchez

Dropt tears have hastened your decay
And brought you one step nigher death;
And you have heard, unthrilled, unmoved,
The music of Love's golden breath
And seen the light in eyes that loved.
You think you hold the core and kernel
Of all the world beneath your crust,
Old dial? But when you lie in dust,
This vine will bloom, strong, green, and proved.
Love is eternal. ~ Eleanor Farjeon

When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become. Some people get freaked out by them: mostly the people who believe, mistakenly, that fantasy is about escaping reality. To them I say: If you have a problem with reality, you should be spending more time dealing with your life, and less time reading popcorn fantasy. ~ Matthew Woodring Stover

Peace is a culture that we create by putting it in the curriculum for young people, through creating this next generation where young people get a chance to go across borders, across cultures, to learn more about each other's life, to create a global community, learn about opportunities for helping others. It's investing in peace and tolerance training, ending the gap between rich and poor. ~ Craig Kielburger

He'd fail doing, not fail waiting. That was the best you could ask of anyone in this life.
-Andrew Dare ~ Rhiannon Held

The more belief and confidence we feel toward achieving our goal, the higher the probability of our making the changes required to hit our targets. ~ Michael Hyatt

Confuse your trail, lose your trail. ~ Vikas Swarup

Life is the pursuit of eternally broadening context. ~ Scott Woods

But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on a breeze, he has begun to float towards his end. He sees it quite clearly, and it fills him with (the word will not go away) despair. The blood of life is leaving his body and despair is taking its place, despair that is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat. ~ J.M. Coetzee

The main shortcoming of humanistic scholarship is its extreme anthropocentrism. Nothing, it seems, matters in the creative arts and critical humanistic analyses except as it can be expressed as a perspective of present-day literate culture. Everything tends to be weighed by its immediate impact on people. Meaning is drawn from that which is valued exclusively in human terms. The most important consequence is that we are left with very little to compare with the rest of life. The deficit shrinks the ground on which we can understand and judge ourselves. ~ Edward O. Wilson

Knowledge is worth nothing, until it is put to practice. ~ Abhijit Naskar

You should love something while you have it, love it fully and without reservation, even if you know you'll lose it someday. We lose everything. If you're trying to avoid loss, there's no point in taking another breath, or letting your heart beat one more time. It all ends." His fingers curl around mine. "That's all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths. ~ Leah Raeder

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Life is like an analogy. ~ Aaron Allston

All that remains of our existence is not actually life but merely time. ~ Seneca.

Ronan rationed the music from their old life, as if he used up a bit of his memories of his father every time he played it. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly: feelings that made me experience myself as shabby, petty, mean, helpless, humiliated, demanding, resentful or confused, and above all, sad and lonely. It was precisely through these experiences, which I had shunned for so long, that I became certain that I now understood something about my life, stemming from the core of my being, something that I could not have learned from any book. ~ Alice Miller

If life is a business, then you are blessed with an abundance of capital which is your unconditional love. ~ Debasish Mridha

Which of us is not saying to himself
which of us has not been saying to himself all
his life:
"
I shall alter that when I have a little
more time"?
We never shall have any more time. We
have, and we have always had, all the time
there is. ~ Arnold Bennett

Don't just make a name for yourself on earth; let your name be written in the book of life in Heaven, the seat of the Sovereign God! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The evenings are meant for deep reflection. ~ Avijeet Das

I've lived my whole life exactly the way I've wanted to. Being gay, being white, being male, it doesn't matter to me. They're all things I'm born with. ~ Johnny Weir

There had never been a point in my life that I hadn't been in love with Thea Hull. It was exactly why I let her go. ~ Aly Martinez

I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right ... People don't succeed by migrating to a "hot" industry (one word: dotcom) or by adopting a particular career-guiding mantra (remember "horizontal careers"?). They thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are
and connecting that to work that they truly love (and, in so doing, unleashing a productive and creative power that they never imagined). ~ Po Bronson

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means - the only complete realist.15 ~ Tad R. Callister

Purity of life is the highest and truest art. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a strong and tranquil soul. ~ Clement Of Alexandria

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead! ~ Bruce Lee

Just as Manda Lewis's impressions of the world had been informed by her reading
leading her to expect balls, duels, and conveniently timed thunderstorms out of life
so, too, had mine; but what I expected was intellectual commerce between equals. ~ Marie Brennan

The greatest purpose of life is to serve the suffering humanity with love and kindness. ~ Debasish Mridha

The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland. ~ G.K. Chesterton