Quotes of: Life-is-unfair Keyword

… my century..is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulate section of mankind has not merely ceased to believe in God, but has deliberately rejected God. And i...

Witness

Here is the world. It is not a safe place, but however frightening and bewildering life may become, we can survive our fears, grab them by the wolf ’s tail as Peter did, and make peace with the world.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sper...

When Nietzsche Wept

I think there's a secret part of me that would like to drop my entire life off a cliff and watch it break into a million pieces

Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment

It is very important to a lot of people to make unmistakably clear to themselves and to the universe that they love the universe but are not intimidated by it and will not be shaken by it, no matter what it has in store. Moreover, they demand somethi...

Young Men and Fire

When you're about to die, your whole life's supposed to flash before your eyes. When you fall in true love, on the other hand, what you see in the twinkling of an eye is your entire future.

You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But it Helps

You want to know, but are afraid to ask, whether or not I found someone. If there could be anyone to fill that hole in my heart after I lost him. I did. "Life is futile," says my new therapist, Michaela, "and no one gets out of it alive. There is onl...

Your Voice in My Head

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every t...

As You Like It

To change you must want to change, you must be responsible for the change, and then take action to make the change. It is your race to run so you need to choose your road wisely.

You are Unstoppable Participant's Guide: Unleash Your Inspired Life

You're here. I'm here. I love you. I'm gonna pee all over the floor about it.

You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

As you step out of your comfort zone, may life embrace you back.

Your Steady Soul: May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love.

Never give a woman flowers to say I love you . Tell her how much you love her and you will wake up looking at the flowers beside her bed.

You Can't Google Life

Prayer isn’t about repeating rituals; it’s about spending time with Dad.

A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life

Left to our own devices, we will make God in our own image.

A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life

The rules for raising children had gone out with her parents generation of daughters who had lived as Lucy had, in patient silence, acting by standards which had lasted generations, waiting to grow up to make their decisions, following the patterns o...

You Are the Love of My Life

Most people go through life by the line of least resistance in every circumstance where they can make a choice. They do not recognize that following the lines of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked!

You Can Work Your Own Miracles

When you believe you reflect what is holy and good, you can see more that is good in every stage of your life. (319)

Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit

. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to underst...

The Yoga Sutras

Acharya Balkrishna on Yog "Who will not be delighted to behold the exotic scenery and flora of the barren lands of Himalayas. Similar is the power of Yog which beautifies the deserted life and fructifies hope in the shattered hearts. By taking refuge...

Yog: In Synergy with Medical Science

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you've got accept the miseries of life. They will often seem infinite, insupportable. They are part of the human conditi...

You Only Live Twice