Quotes related to James 1:2-4
Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.
— John Updike
Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.
— Samuel Johnson
Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough.
— John Maxwell
Say "yes" to life! "Yes" to wonder, to joy, to despair. "Yes" to pain, "yes" to what you don't understand. Try "yes." Try "always." Try "possible." Try "hopeful." Try "I will." And try "I can."
— Leo Buscaglia
As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.
— Mark Vonnegut
Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.
— MFK Fisher
Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?
— Ernest Hemingway
Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.
— Richard Paul Evans
Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.
— William James
I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.
— Will Smith
Life is a test and this world a place of trial.
— Winston Churchill