Quotes About Life

You built this place with your imagination, but you breathed life into it, and now it's as real as anyplace else. When you're ready, this is where you will come to focus your power. For now, it waits.

Even if we're here for no other reason than because we're here, I don't think it relieves us of deciding what our own purpose here is. I still have to figure that out, but I don't feel like I need to know right this instant anymore. I think I can wait to find out how many apples are inside me.

Well, if you enjoy life while you have it, then it doesn't matter how long you have it for. No one knows how long they get to live. It's like a deal you make when you're born, you know, to accept what happens to you.

If this is the ride of my life, I want a refund.

of a heart attack from all this stress, I'd be impressed with her dedication. I can't think of a single instance in my life when I've tried

I made sure to pay attention to everything I was doing. To be fully in the moment. Because that's all life is, really, a string of moments that you knot together and carry with you. Hopefully most of those moments are wonderful, but of course they won't all be. The trick is to recognize an important one when it happens.

We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us.

A cornerstone of Jewish thought is that God created each of us to fulfill a specific purpose during life in this world. Each person is responsible for discovering and carrying out their divinely intended purpose.

We take a snapshot of our teens in their current phase and mistake it for the epic movie of their entire life.

But I think I'm too old to dream now. In a month and a half, I'll be twenty-nine.

It's been so long since I heard that someone died of natural causes.

If I'd known this was life here I would have stayed in Syria and handed myself over to ISIS. It's better to die once than die slowly every day.

Thank God, we came here to Lebanon. But life is terrible here, too. This neighborhood of shacks, the lack of hygiene, the germs making the kids sick.

In "The Decay of Lying" Oscar Wilde asserts that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

I wonder if because of my reading I have lived more fully or in some ways failed to live, at least in my own time and place.

No creo que haya ninguna muerte indolora, aunque solo dure un segundo. Aunque nos corten la cabeza o nos disparen en el corazón. La vida es demasiado fuerte para desaparecer sin algún tipo de sufrimiento.

happiness is a state of mind. The glass is half empty. The glass is half full. It's pouring rain. The flowers will grow. I am going to die one day. I am alive on this day.

Life doesn't really offer that many pleasures that you can go around avoiding the obvious ones.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. —LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH

began to pray in earnest. She realized as she did so that she hadn't addressed God in any way since her father's fatal illness five years ago. And if God hadn't responded to that life-and-death situation, what were the chances that He was going to bother with a matter as small as Kendall Aims's career?

Getting older is definitely not for sissies." But then neither, it seemed, was marriage.

No one can understand why we are given certain circumstances in life, but we can only trust in his love and his way.

Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity.