Gloria Gaither Quotes

There was more to life than the things you could hold in your hands or see with your eyes.

Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.

Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fingers while she talks. "Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands"; (slowly twisting the lilac stalks) "You let it flow from you, you let it flow, And youth is cruel, and has no remorse And smiles at situations which it cannot see." I smile, of course, And go on drinking tea.

We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

The things that matter most in this world are those that carry no price tag, for they can neither be bought nor sold at any price.

Life's meaning heavily benefits from lifelong bonds.

This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.

Each of us has a Soul. But no one has stopped to tell us what the Soul is in the world to do. Or if they have told us, they've given us incomplete information - for example, that our job is to get back to God. That is not our job. We couldn't get back to God if we wanted to, because we never left God.

When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in rereading your financial statement? Of course not. What will matter then will be people. If relationships will matter most then, shouldn't they matter most now?

When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?'

The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.

In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.

For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.

I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind.

The greatest success in life is to feel I’m something for someone; the feeling of falling in love, the newness of love.

The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.

When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.