Dorm Life Quotes

It was more when things slowed down, during the parts when you were supposed to have fun, that my lack of friends felt obvious- on Saturday nights, when there dances I didn't go to, and during visitation... I spent those times hiding. Most of the other girls propped open their doors for visitation, but we kept ours shut. ~ Curtis Sittenfeld

The arm or the leg of the human body may be amputated without destroying life, yet no man would, therefore, think or say the member was of no importance, or that the functions of the body might be as fully and perfectly performed without it as with it. The salvation of that man is secured who builds on Christ - that sure foundation - but it is no matter of indifference whether he build wood, hay, and stubble, or gold, silver, and precious stones, as the fire shall try every man's work. There is an essential difference between ignorance or error and the neglect or abandonment of what is known to be a part of the truth of God. We may accept with all confidence one of very limited information and of a very defective judgment, but not one who, knowing the mind of the Lord in a particular case, is prepared to class it with unimportant things and neglect it. ~ William Sommerville

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world - I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. ~ Zora Neale Hurston

Each day is a gift
To embrace and welcome ~ Karen Hackel

With our faith in our community of two or more, we can go anywhere.When the three roots of faith, practice, and community support have fed us deeply, then we will be solid both alone and in our relationships. We will not just survive; we will flourish. Often in our daily lives, we are just focused on survival. But fidelity is not a question of survival. It is one of vitality. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Women or mothers in middle-age or mid-career have valuable life experience and may offer an untapped recruitment pool. ~ Hazel Blears

Marriage is an expression of love and respect and trust and faith in the future, but the union of husband and wife is also an alliance against the challenges and tragedies of life, a promise that with me in your corner, you will never stand alone. ~ Dean Koontz

Death is so final, whereas life is full of possibilities'

- Tyrion Lannister ~ George R.R. Martin

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right. ~ Abraham Cowley

Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea. ~ Arundhati Roy

Being so alone and so silent for so long gave me the opportunity to see how our brains actually work. I think of that so often in my regular life, as I'm always interacting with people or with my computer or phone. ~ Cheryl Strayed

One begins to realize that art ... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The stone itself becomes an organic substance, and one can feel it being transformed as one moment in its life succeeds another. ~ Georges Clemenceau

Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart ... ~ Ken Keyes Jr.

Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life ... Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you've been born to do, now. ~ David Deida

Toward the end of his life, Fred Terman wrote that he had no regrets: "If I had my life to live over again, I would play the same record. ~ Eric Weiner

You finally did it!
I suppose so. Though I don't really know what 'it' is.
It is life, sweetie. Rich, abundant, thrilling life! You've embraced it ... What he did to you was evil. But it struck me the other day that if you turn evil around, you're actually left with a pretty clear directive: live. And that's exactly what you're doing. You going to live. Really live. ~ Glenn Beck

Life is too short to listen to a MAN to tell me how to live it. ~ Sarah Strohmeyer

When I say that evil has to do with killing, I do not mean to restrict myself to corporeal murder. Evil is that which kills spirit. There are various essential attributes of life -- particularly human life -- such as sentience, mobility, awareness, growth, autonomy, will. It is possible to kill or attempt to kill one of these attributes without actually destroying the body. Thus we may "break" a horse or even a child without harming a hair on its head.

Erich Fromm was acutely sensitive to this fact when he broadened the definition of necrophilia to include the desire of certain people to control others-to make them controllable, to foster their dependency, to discourage their capacity to think for themselves, to diminish their unpredectibility and originalty, to keep them in line. Distinguishing it from a "biophilic" person, one who appreciates and fosters the variety of life forms and the uniqueness of the individual, he demonstrated a "necrophilic character type," whose aim it is to avoid the inconvenience of life by transforming others into obedient automatons, robbing them of their humanity.

Evil then, for the moment, is the force, residing either inside or outside of human beings, that seeks to kill life or liveliness. And goodness is its opposite. Goodness is that which promotes life and liveliness. ~ M. Scott Peck

What his uncle does not understand is that in walking backwards, his back to the world, his back to God, he is not grieving. He is objecting. Because when everything cherished by you in life has been taken away, what else is there to do but object? ~ Yann Martel

The cruelest thing you can do to
someone is force them to hurt alone ~ Chris Colfer

If you say, 'Now I look like an old man', you will start to look like an old man. If you say, 'No, I look like a young man now', you will start to look like a young man. What you project is what you will see. Soul is the form of projection and if false projections are done, the worldly life is created! If you come to a state free of false belief (wrong projection), You will be in the state of the 'Real form of the Self' (mood swaroop). ~ Dada Bhagwan

I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my actual life, and I've never been so visible. ~ Debbie Gibson

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything. ~ Willie Stargell

The life mission God gave you was only appointed to you. If you are faithful, God will send someone into your life to support it. If your are blessed, he will send someone who shares your passion. If you are chosen, he will unlock every door that stands in your way. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. ~ Vince Lombardi

It's a great battle, and it really is a battle, and there are people from all walks of life, you know, never judge anybody at the table: A man can be the greatest poker player and he might know all the numbers, but he might get beaten by a really savvy kid who works in a grocery store; and that's what's so great about this game. ~ James Woods

Our love douses us in flames. It's terrible and deep and wingless, but I'll burn here if you burn here too. ~ Nadege Richards

Being kind takes more heart than effort. ~ Jodi Livon

But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies. ~ Orson Scott Card

The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility. ~ Oded Fehr

God knows the motives of every man. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I'd give ten finger, both arms. I'd give anything. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Meet me 5 p.m. Thursday. You know where. I'll be there every week at that time for the rest of my life. ~ Jandy Nelson

In modern life we move from one insulated igloo to another...serially abstracting ourselves from nature and its impacts. ~ Rinker Buck

We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy. ~ Evgeny Morozov

We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with us, and from which, at various times, and amidst all the shiftings of circumstances, we might be sure of drawing some comfort, guidance and sympathy. ~ Arthur Helps

Gratitude is the combination of appreciate, love, kindness, and compassion in a beautiful heart. ~ Debasish Mridha

I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life. ~ Webb Simpson

Morning is a gate, a gate to life; night is a gate, a gate to life. Use both gates to fully join the life! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Tell me what good touch is and what is bad for I am young and I have no dad. -Jenifer ~ Durgesh Satpathy

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults. ~ Merlin Stone

Life is one big gym where we need to constantly workout to stay fit for this world. And indeed love here is the treadmill. ~ Munia Khan

There's no shortage of material in life. ~ Jonathan Ames

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right. ~ Hayley Mills

You came to this world with the promise to live an extraordinary life. ~ Debasish Mridha

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is. ~ Evan Williams