#eli

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#philosophy #philosophy-of-life #life

You don’t get one chance at life but many over one lifetime. ↗

— Elize Amornette

#elize-amornette #elize-amornette-author #private-emotions-trilogy #romance-book #romance-novel-books

Each individual is born into life as a creation from the source, and as an inhabitant and visitor to this planet. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#life-and-living #religion-spirituality #life

Jesus' whole life was a lesson in Truth where the rubber meets the road." ~R. Alan Woods [2007] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#lesson-for-life #lesson-in-life #lessons-for-man #modeling-behavior #r-alan-woods

This is exactly why the preservation of the world is not a priority for the true Christian. We are not of this world. Our love is for God, and our hope lies in Him, not the world. So the "social justice" agenda is not the Christian agenda, nor can it ever be for the Church. ↗

— Curtis A. Chamberlain

#faith

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood. ↗

— Laurie Lee

#civilization #life #panic #religion #sacrifice

Joy, humor, and laughter should be part of everyone's spiritual life. They are gifts from God and help us enjoy creation. ↗

— James Martin

#laughter #religion #spirituality #life

Sometimes we don't need to eat or drink as much as we do, but it has become a kind of addiction. We feel so lonely. Loneliness is one of the afflictions of modern life. It is similar to the Third and Fourth Precpets--we feel lonely, so we engage in conversation, or even in a sexual relationship, hoping that the feeling of loneliness will go away. Drinking and eating can also be the result of loneliness. You want to drink or overeat in order to forget your loneliness, but what you eat may bring toxins into your body. When you are lonely, you open the refrigerator, watch TV, read magazines or novels, or pick up the telephone to talk. But unmindful consumption always makes things worse (68). ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#loneliness #mindfulness #life

We cross paths with certain people in our tangled lives for a reason. It's not by chance, not an accident but it's on a purpose. You were made to be part of someone's life for it was written long before you were born."- Elizabeth's Quotes ↗

— Elizabeth E. Castillo

#path #reason #life

Raven had been shunned and abandoned throughout his life. Friends often came and went without a word or worse, they toyed with his emotions and shared his secrets with those he chose to distrust. His loneliness was inevitable and his secrets were damaging enough. Through all of his largely brief but emotionally involved friendships and infatuations, the depression and the darkness of his past, there had been one place to which he could go for solitude—either in thought or in person—and he never shared the knowledge of its existence or its secrets with anyone. That place dwelled within him even all of these years since the summer when he was nine and all that could ever have gone wrong, did. ↗

— Amanda M. Lyons

#loneliness #raven #secret-place #thoughts #friendship