Top 1200 Worldly Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

Losing time is harder than death, as losing time keeps you away from Allah and the Hereafter, while death keeps you away from the worldly life and people.

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

The worldly stuff is not always going to be there and it could be taken away at any moment.

No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul's inner light.

Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings

Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you.

Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything but wait for the stars. A time I love. One feels half disembodied, sitting like a shadow at the door of one’s being while the dark tide rises. Then comes the moon, marvellously serene, and small stars, very merry for some reason of their own. It is so easy to forget, in a worldly life, to attend to these miracles.

One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me. It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God's holy ordinances shall be established again in the home, in the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord, to which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to God

To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.

There is something urbane, stylish, and worldly about owning a cocktail shaker.

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My mom was in the chorus of 'Hello Dolly' and 'The Worldly Players'; my dad would build the set.

Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.

If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.

No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.

Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.

Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.

There’s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow. My pain will die. My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either.

Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.

There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost.

Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.

In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.

It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on which man knows himself to be dependent, powers whose favors he needs, powers whose wrath he fears. Myths express the knowledge that man is not master of the world and his life, that the world within which he lives is full of riddles and mysteries and that human life also is full of riddles and mysteries.

The women who are pool waitresses are another worldly species. They're half-desert lizards. They never have sunburns.

For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.

A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.

Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.

A country doesn't need a businessman to run it: it needs a heartful, worldly, compassionate leader.

...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.

I am a Sufi guy, so fame is maya for me, a worldly illusion.

When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I fear lest my life will lose some of its homeliness. If these fields and streams and woods, the phenomena of nature here, and the simple occupations of the inhabitants should cease to interest and inspire me, no culture or wealth would atone for the loss.

I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.

Our eagerness for worldly activity kills in us the sense of spiritual awe

I am not a speaker nor a preacher. I have no mission to change the world. I have no original words or teaching to give anyone. I reflect only what I've seen and heard - most ordinary, very common. I have no fascination for fresh ideas and activity. All enthusiasm for worldly endeavours and strivings have all but gone. For me, thoughts, words and deeds- the activities of life, are merely the utensils for serving out the 'prasad' of the Being-ness.