Quotes about Life
At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.
— Harry S. Truman
There's only one story, the story of your life.
— Helen Keller
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.
— Helen Keller
The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.
— Henri Nouwen
I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.
— Henri Nouwen
Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now.
— Henri Nouwen
Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.
— Henri Nouwen
Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.
— Henri Nouwen
You are the heir to the Kingdom. Prosperity is your birth right and you hold the key to more abundance in every area of your life then you can possibly imagine.
— Henri Nouwen
There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life.
— Henri Nouwen
Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.
— Henri Nouwen
By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.
— Henri Nouwen