Quotes About Life

If there are a few good people in the world, let them be, but may all others remain natural. Otherwise, work can't go on, nor can the soul survive.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.

My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.

A big laugh, a glass of wine, time to talk and laugh with each other, a moment to notice the simple pleasures -- these are the keys to a quality of life.

Do what makes you happy, be with who makes you smile, laugh as much as you breathe, and love as long as you live.

There's much talk in popular culture about finding happiness—as though if you aren't grinning ear to ear 24 hours a day you're somehow missing out on life.

My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strengths that will endure as life lasts

As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life.

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.

To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

It's strange,' he said, 'that you always changed everything and I changed nothing and yet we've both ended up in the same place.

It struck me how the human capacity for receptivity is a kind of birthright, an asset given to us in the moment of our creation by which we are intended to regulate the currency of our souls. Unless we give back to life as much as we take from it, this faculty will fail us sooner or later.