Life Ceilings Quotes

My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell him that he was never going to die, that somehow he would always be present in my life, because he had a theory that death didn't exist, only forgetfulness did. He believed that if you can keep people in your memory, they will live forever. That's what he did with my grandmother. ~ Isabel Allende

We are life. We are the result of life's power, and we are the channels through which that power courses. We want truth, but we reach for more knowledge instead - and then we must defend what we believe. Knowledge makes a small impression on the world compared to the power of truth - even when it serves life, elevating awareness and creating dreams of impeccability. How can knowledge serve better? How can we stop it from doing harm and creating conflict? First, we can see knowledge for what it is - all the agreements we make about reality - and get some perspective. Then we can listen to ourselves. We can modify both our thinking and our emotional attachment to thought. We can win the war in our heads, one that has gone on long enough. We can nurture a belief in ourselves and drift away from the crowd. ~ Miguel Ruiz

If you just change one person's life, you feel like you've done something. But if you can change a whole lot of them and get them looking at themselves differently, it's amazing. ~ Debbie Allen

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life. ~ William Barrett

Only the promise of eternal growth made sense of eternal life. Kate ~ Greg Egan

By letting go with gratitude, you are not losing anything, but you are gaining the wisdom, present moment, and future of endless possibilities. ~ Debasish Mridha

I always felt that church is where I'm going to find my community and people to live my life with. ~ Sara Zarr

Life is a journey, and I may not have always lived up to my ability, but I have always lived purposefully, and I guess readers get caught up with me, raising the questions, looking for the answers, looking to be a little more understanding, a little less judgmental, a little more merciful. I hope so. ~ Carol Plum-Ucci

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer. ~ Laura Hillenbrand

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial. ~ Winston Churchill

Makeup. Fancy dresses is just temporary beauty. Confidence. Smile this stays longer. ~ Sarvesh Jain

A person's attitude to money determines whom he serves in life. ~ Sunday Adelaja

The two important things that I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision. ~ Robyn Davidson

I don't know about you, but I just can't rule out finding the love of my life simply because he's twenty four years older than me. I'm only sorry you had to wait so long for me to reach the right age to come looking for you. ~ Dawn Sister

Hello? Oh, nothing ... Just sort of hanging around ... My brother? He's right here ... He's reading ... He's always reading ... He has no life of his own, and he's a very boring person so he reads a lot ... What's he reading? I don't know ... She wants to know what you're reading ... "
"How to survive living in the same family with an annoying sister."
"Ivanhoe. ~ Charles M. Schulz

The present moment contains the whole of life. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

To be with another scientist and make a discovery and share that with a global audience, or working with bear biologists in Alaska, by helicopter - [it's] really what I've given my whole life to. And I get to do that just about every week. ~ Jeff Corwin

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself. ~ Alexander Alekhine

Everyone is supposed to be a combination of nature and nurture, their true selves shaped by years of friends and fights and parents and dreams and things you did too young and things you overheard that you shouldn't have and secrets you kept or couldn't and regrets and victories and quiet prides, all the packed-together detritus that becomes what you call your life. ~ Melissa Albert

But life and pain go hand and hand. On e cannot live fully unless one faces pain at least occasionally. ~ Mary Balogh

I'm a New Yorker. I was there during 9/11 and I saw how, not only New York City stopped for a moment, we all took an inhale and exhale at the same time - the world united at that time, and it changed my life. ~ Aisha Hinds

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me. ~ Hugo Hamilton

When we take our doubts and questions to Christ, we get truthful answers. We get complete answers. We get the love, wisdom, and support we need. ~ Toni Sorenson

The impact of your life will go beyond your imagination. Live your life to be a blessing. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

My life is a struggle. ~ Voltaire

All she had left of her old life and her old uncertainties was attacking familiar targets. ~ J.K. Rowling

Once you die, that's it – game over. ~ Abhijit Naskar

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life. ~ Janis Joplin

I am tired of the warmakers making war with our children. I am tired of our tired troops being sent over to do the dirty work for mob bosses who are going to squeeze the life out of Iraq and not leave until every asset and every natural resource has been raped from the country. I am tired of seeing Iraqis burying their loved ones and hearing the reverberating screams of mothers all over our country who are being destroyed for the benefit of a very few. ~ Cindy Sheehan

The life of the person sentenced to this punishment trickled away drop by drop. ~ Holger Kersten

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened. ~ Andrew Carnegie

I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up. ~ Abraham Lincoln

The church has lost the chance of becoming the unifying element in our American society. It is not anticipating any facts. It is merely catching up very slowly to the new social facts created by economic and other forces. The American melting pot is doing its work. The churches merely represent various European cultures, lost in the amalgam of American life and maintaining a separate existence only in religion. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr

I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on my life, if acting hadn't been a part of it, I would hate myself. ~ Lupita Nyong'o

Fuck the miracle of life, where do I sign up for a hysterectomy? ~ Glen Duncan

If you never put your life in someone else's hands, then you can't really expect them to put theirs in yours. In the long run, never trusting anyone is a hard way to live. ~ Sabrina Jeffries

Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge. ~ Mark Dayton

You are my life, little one. We will ask Father Hummer to marry us in the way of your people." His white teeth gleamed at her. His dark eyes were warm with contentment. "I will accept the marriage as binding, and you will erase the word divorce and all of its meanings from your memory. That will please me." He grinned at her, male amusement taunting her.
Her fingertips traced the hard line of his jaw tenderly. "How do you manage to turn everything to your advantage?"
His hand found the bare skin of her satin-smooth thigh, reveling in all that warm heat. "I do not know the answer to that, little one. Perhaps it is sheer talent. ~ Christine Feehan

For as long as I remember, you've been my lifeline. Every possible future I've imagined, you've always been in it. Funny how I always imagined happily-ever-afters as if we were living in a fairy tale. ~ Mina Rehman

The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will. ~ Sigmund Freud

Success requires a focused attention of your time and energy. This is true no matter what you want to achieve – to change the world or simply change apartments. All success stories come down to one person having a focused aim – so focused at times it can look like an obsession. ~ Nigel Cumberland

Find the interest of people and help them achieve their calling ~ Sunday Adelaja

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man. ~ Alfred Nobel

Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter. ~ Marcel Proust

Back when I had fresh, unwounded eyes. Before I realized the selfishness and deceit that we, as adults, hold. The ugly truths of life that pull apart love and make our relationships obligation-centers that carry us from year to year, transition to transition. ~ Alessandra Torre

When you prepare, regularly work hard, create value, help others get what they want, and persevere ... the life of your dreams is INEVITABLE. ~ Matthew Loop

Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light, not in the midst of a sermon, not in the throes of some kind of religious daydream, but ... at supper time, or walking along a road ... He never approached from on high, but always in the midst, in the midst of people, in the midst of real life and the questions that real life asks. ~ Frederick Buechner

Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone's life in a very positive way are better. ~ Tim Howard