#living

One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#advice #living #love

Millions call themselves by His name, it is true, and pay some token homage to Him, but a simple test will show how little He is really honored among them. Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who or what is ABOVE, and his true position will be exposed. Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time. Those other things will be exalted above. However the man may protest, the proof is in the choice he makes day after day throughout his life. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#life

Music originated from God and was created solely for his worship, his glory, and his pleasure. ↗

— Pedro Okoro

#music #spiritual-warfare #wors #music

Old is Gold more at quotes123.org ↗

— Jignesh

#life-changing #life-lessons #old #change

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88) ↗

— Stephen Levine

#death #dying #life #living #opportunity

It’s not that I wanted to die . I just wanted to go to sleep for long enough for my life to find some meaning again. ↗

— Bart Baker

#life

Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#living-life-to-the-fullest #smile #life

This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life. There is good and bad and it's our duty to remain in the light, be good. ↗

— Anita Nair

#life

Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#tree #life

All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#life-lessons #life