Life Is Yours For The Taking Quotes

#1. Mastery of impulse is achieved through taking pauses during life's contrasting situations. Mastery of impulse is about developing strong willpower that can be used to redirect the flow of energy in any situation. Mastery of impulse is about responding to the world with a sense of reason and peace. - Author: Alaric Hutchinson

#2. When something flipping out to the worse, don't feel bad. But be strong and make yourself hard so that the situations stop taking chance to hurt you. - Author: Giridhar Alwar

#3. And if ever you need encouragement, remember at least two sober facts which nobody can rationally deny: that you are a new and unique living force in nature, and that you can, by taking thought and pursuing it, become more and more intensely alive. - Author: John Steeksma

#4. The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I? - Author: Bob Marley

#5. It's easier to take than to give. It's nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime. - Author: Joan Marques

#6. This book is about fighting back. The dominant culture -civilization- is killing the planet, and it is long past time for those of us who care about life on earth to begin taking the actions necessary to stop this culture from destroying every living thing. - Author: Derrick Jensen

#7. One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is to come, which may or may not happen, then you will only be wasting precious days you will wish in the future you could have cherished a bit longer. - Author: R.J. Gonzales

#8. When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works. - Author: Hannibal Buress

#9. Dreams in your life are like light bulbs that brighten your room. But having them on the ceiling is just not enough; you got to make an effort by pressing on the switch and there it goes taking away the darkness! - Author: Israelmore Ayivor

#10. Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#11. Nothing's ever simple. I just don't want you to ignore possibilities out of fear. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith, believing that somebody's going to catch you. - Author: Nadia Lee

#12. The second most powerful man in the country." All his life Lyndon Johnson had been taking "nothing jobs" and making them into something - something big. And now, no sooner - Author: Robert A. Caro

#13. Most people were raised to think they are not worthy. School is a process of taking beautiful kids who are filled with life and beating them into happy slavery. That's as true of a twenty-five-thousand-dollar-a-year executive as it is for the poorest.
Bill Talcott - Organizer - Author: Studs Terkel

#14. Who knows why you kids do any of the crap you do?"
"And who knows why you guys are such assholes?" Lex countered, taking a sip of her soda. "Life is just full of little mysteries, isn't it? - Author: Gina Damico

#15. Success comes from taking the initiative and following up ... persisting ... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life? - Author: Tony Robbins

#16. Just because you have to walk sometimes doesn't mean life isn't taking you places. - Author: Melodie Ramone

#17. The child who has been taught to love the process of growing, learning and taking on new challenges and experiences can face life with confidence and poise. The - Author: Tara Woods Turner

#18. The fox who end up living the life they expected are more often than not end up taking sleeping pills or taking the barrel of a gun and pulling the trigger. - Author: Stephen King

#19. He put his foot on it, and lifted one of the sleeves out with his teeth, and chewed and chewed at it, gradually taking it in, and all the while opening and closing his eyes in a kind of religious ecstasy, as if he had never tasted anything as good as an overcoat before, in his life. - Author: Mark Twain

#20. I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today. - Author: Tom Coburn

#21. Changes in life, taking the turning point.
Everyone passes numerous paths along the road of life. There's a dilemma when it comes to choosing. - Author: Hlovate

#22. I love acting and really taking on another person, another life. - Author: Christopher Gorham

#23. And let's face it: all of this remodeling made me feel like I was taking control of something in my life. - Author: Catherine Tidd

#24. A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system? - Author: Robert A. Heinlein

#25. Life is for living and for sharing - but not taking. - Author: Brooklyn June

#26. You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win. - Author: Judith McNaught

#27. Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead
too afraid to live, only waiting, never taking a risk
I am as good as dead already. - Author: Joe Meno

#28. When we think of "taking Christ into the workplace" or "keeping Christ in the home," we are making our faith into a set of special acts. The "specialness" of such acts just underscores the point - that being a Christian, being Christ's isn't thought of as a normal part of life. - Author: Dallas Willard

#29. I'm a firm believer in taking risks in life, because you'll never get anywhere unless you do, and the more risk involved the greater the outcome
or the worse, but you never know so you've got to go for it. - Author: Famke Janssen

#30. Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly. - Author: Elihu Root