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It was apparent that all of mankind is actually motivated by inner love, but has simply become unaware; most people live their lives as though they're sleepers unawakened to the perception of who they really are.

It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.

It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.

It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor . . . I fought to win.

It was Lord Jesus Christ who said "Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.

It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.

It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

It will all work out in the end. You must keep faith in yourself, and leave the rest to God.

It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time.

It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

It would be great if people never got angry at someone for doing something they've done themselves.

It would be fair in terms of justice that those who believe in 'Life After Death' live much less than those who do not believe in such a thing!

It would seem to me that If this physical life, of which we are now aware, does indeed comprise the entirety of human experience, then what we seem to intuitively know to be true is entirely backwards. For if this is the case, then it must be the despicable tyrant, free of any moral values, and not the selfless compassionate who sacrifices himself for the good of mankind that is truly the one most deserving of our reverence and emulation.

It would be wonderful if this world was guided by little children, because they are closer to life than anyone else.

It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creative power. Ah, that would be superficial indeed! In reality, those shells, which once were alive in water and are now dead and decomposed, were made thus by time not Nature; and what we now find as very hard, figured stone, was once soft mud and which received the impression of the shape of a shell, as I have frequently demonstrated.

I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife and to do it in a moral way that makes it better for you and for those around you, and that leaves this world a little better place than when you found it.

I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and, indeed, my entire adult life.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

I used to love the way everyone talked about food as if it were one of the most important things in life. And, of course, it is. Without it we would die. Each of us eats about one thousand meals each year. It is my belief that we should try and make as many of these meals as we can truly memorable.

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

I used to wear my mom's Wayfarers. When the people of Ray Ban noticed that, they sent me a box full of sunglasses, two and a half years ago. Now they're all gone. They've disappeared during trips, many were also stolen from me, the rest I lost again and again. Now I have only one pair left.

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.

I've always been extremely lucky in my life.

I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order

I've always told people that to be successful you have to enjoy what you're doing and right now I really enjoy what I'm doing. I'm having too much fun with my life. Why would I want to do something else? Why would I want to run for governor?

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.

I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.

I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.

I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life. Perhaps death is sacred, and I've profaned it. Oh, what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of, the formula for life. Think of the power, to create a man. And I did, I did it, I created a man. And who knows, in time I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race, I might even have found the secret of eternal life.