Life-Giving Quotes

Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.

The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria. But woman's function is to give life, yet neither the State nor politicians nor public opinion have ever made the slightest provision in return for the life woman has given.

The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.

You know, in some ways, the celibacy tradition goes back to the tribe of Levi and, certainly, sacrifice and the notion of sacrifice. In the Old Testament, the shedding of blood was for a man to perform. It was not for the woman, who gave life.

I will do water - beautiful, blue water.

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

I try to produce music that is life-giving and inspires people to hope, but it isn't just for the super-religious. I want to address themes that people who aren't Christian can appreciate.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

Comedy is lively, comedy is joy, and that's what keeps us [people] going, we've got to look forward to little, little happiness's. Little, little joys, and comedy is very, very important, it's a vital. We underestimate its value, but we should see more comedies. Comedy is life giving, it's invigorating. I really believe it.

You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life

A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment.

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.

The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut also by another of God's creative principles: that humanity has free will. What that means is that in any given moment, it is our choice whether we move toward love or retreat from it. What is not love is fear. But in the larger scheme of things, there is a limit past which lovelessness cannot remain. Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end.

Water symbolizes the whole of potentiality - the source of all possible existence.

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it.

To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.

Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.

Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.

Love, the life-giving garden of this world.

Earth is a stunningly lovely planet for so many reasons. Among these is the wondrous presence of curious, artful, inventive humanity.

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.

So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.