Quotes About Life

Spring is umbilical or else it is not spring.

It is good death That puts an end to evil death and dies.

You like it under the trees in autumn, Because everything is half dead.

The mere flowing of the water is a gaiety

Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?

Life contracts and death is expected, As in a season of autumn. The soldier falls. He does not become a three-days personage, Imposing his separation, Calling for pomp. Death is absolute and without memorial, As in a season of autumn, When the wind stops, When the wind stops and, over the heavens, The clouds go, nevertheless, In their direction.

THE DEATH OF A SOLDIER Life contracts and death is expected, As in a season of autumn. The soldier falls. He does not become a three-days personage, Imposing his separation, Calling for pomp. Death is absolute and without memorial, As in a season of autumn, When the wind stops, When the wind stops and, over the heavens, The clouds go, nevertheless, In their direction.

I am and have a being and play a part.

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

It is not an artifice that the mind has added to human nature. The mind has added nothing to human nature. It is a violence from within that protects us from a violence without It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do wIth our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.

Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

We live in an old chaos of the sun.

The imperfect is our paradise.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.

I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.

I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you... happily-maybe-sometimes-ever-after. Sort of. You know, with warts and shit." -Thayer

This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you thought you were going.

Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.

It is all connected Dominick," she said. "Life is not a series of isolated ponds & puddles; life is this river you see below, before you. It flows from the past through the present on it's way to the future.

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found.

Real life is the present moment—not the memories of the past which is dead and gone, nor the dreams of the future which is not yet born. One who lives in the present moment lives the real life, and he is happiest.

According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him 'What is the beginning of God?' he would answer without hesitation 'God has no beginning', and he is not astonished at his own reply.