It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
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CRAIG GROESCHEL What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! ABHISHEK KUMAR If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... CRAIG GROESCHEL The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN We only care about our faults when we realize them. DANIEL MELGAçO Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a... BRENT M. JONES I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL It's the imperfections that make things beautiful JENNY HAN And when I saw you kissing that girl My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered And ... KATE NASH The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters. JOSE MOURINHO Take it easy. Live life- one day at a time. It is only when we add the regrets of 'yesterday' and wo... ANURAG SHOURIE There are moments of heartache and heartbreak, that we wonder how we did not drop dead in our pain. ... MISHI MCCOY We talk of strong personalities, and they are strong, until the not-every-day when we see them as we... GENE WOLFE A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. ALBERT EINSTEIN People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER Uncomfortable with our sense-of-lack today, we look forward to that day in the future when we will f... DAVID R. LOY Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other an... BELL HOOKS It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. HENRY DAVID THOREAU When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ... CRAIG GROESCHEL See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only whe... A.J. DARKHOLME That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to... 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DANIEL HANDLER The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it i... THICH NHAT HANH We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it i... NHAT HANH Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see... SUNDAY ADELAJA She is sugar, curiosity, and rain. E. LOCKHART A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON It is only when we forget out learning that we begin to know. HENRY DAVID THOREAU We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. CHE GUAVARA It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited,... LEMONY SNICKET We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou... JOSEPH EPSTEIN Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all th... RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all th... RICHARD M. NIXON Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live DOROTHY THOMPSON Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. DOROTHY THOMPSON Quincy called one and I told them we only had one and told them we needed one at the end. But those ... GARY WATERS It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what... JON STEWART I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now." "Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur... LAUREN OLIVER To say to that you will never forget ,is always a sincere and an honest way to express ones self to ... GARY F EVANS... In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever. E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن... EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts." "Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ... E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat... E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel. E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark. Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain. Gat, h... E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young. E. LOCKHART We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only w... R. D. LAING If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God. CRAIG GROESCHEL Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it i... JONATHAN CARROLL We live in relative world with relatives. DEYTH BANGER There was a time that when we faced them and we knew when we walked on the field, knowing we were go... MARK MCQUADE Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an en... WILLIAM HAZLITT As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We ca... 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Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but ... ELISABETH ELLIOT God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are alway... ELISABETH ELLIOT By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere. ELISABETH ELLIOT 'We didn't have enough money, or horses of our own I would take an old saddle and put it on a swing ... ELISABETH SHUE Jim devoted ten days largely to prayer to make sure that this was indeed what God intended for him. ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections. ELISABETH ELLIOT Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that... ELISABETH ELLIOT ...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spiri... ELISABETH ELLIOT The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to un... ELISABETH ELLIOT When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us alw... ELISABETH ELLIOT George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Think of the self that God has given as an acorn. It is a marvelous little thing, a perfect shape, p... ELISABETH ELLIOT I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casu... ELISABETH ELLIOT He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really t... ELISABETH ELLIOT The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled... ELISABETH ELLIOT The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-... ELISABETH ELLIOT When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unne... ELISABETH ELLIOT He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missiona... ELISABETH ELLIOT There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw... ELISABETH ELLIOT The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual d... ELISABETH ELLIOT Single life may be only a stage of a life’s journey, but even a stage is a gift. God may replace i... ELISABETH ELLIOT If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to... ELISABETH ELLIOT To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And t... ELISABETH ELLIOT Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lie... ELISABETH ELLIOT I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the ... ELISABETH ELLIOT This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive. ELISABETH ELLIOT I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me. ELISABETH SHUE I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like H... ELISABETH MOSS Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own ... ELISABETH EAVES We jumped into water so clear and warm that it was like jumping from air to air. The sand rose up un... ELISABETH EAVES Yeah, it was so good. I was so-o-o mean to her before [in Hide and Seek ]. Man, I felt bad because I... ELISABETH SHUE She reminds you of the joyfulness that you felt when you first started and reminds you to never let ... ELISABETH SHUE She has a wisdom beyond her years. But what I love about her most is that she is a girl. Her playful... ELISABETH SHUE After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's ... ELISABETH SHUE I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Being a Dream Girl is never going to be about what you look like or how much you weigh. After all, o... JENNIFER ELISABETH This is your life – not your parents’, teachers’ or significant other’s. If you ever find yo... JENNIFER ELISABETH [Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blu... ELISABETH ELLIOT Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. ELISABETH ELLIOT I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can h... ELISABETH SHUE He hung everything that he had done during the residency on the walls and covered the walls floor-to... ELISABETH SUSSMAN He hung everything that he had done during the residency on the walls and covered the walls floor-to... ELISABETH SUSSMAN Part of the challenge in this country is encouraging people to save enough for retirement, but an eq... ELISABETH GEHL Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our ... JENNIFER ELISABETH Can you identify the source preventing you from feeling good every single day, from loving yourself ... JENNIFER ELISABETH Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from s... ELISABETH ELLIOT We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevi... ELISABETH ELLIOT When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Hi... ELISABETH ELLIOT The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the ... ELISABETH ELLIOT We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen; you only know what you h... ELISABETH ELLIOT