Quotes About Life

Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

The experience of this sweet life. L'esperienza de questa dolce vita.

These have not the hope to die.

Places that are empty of you are empty of life.

I marked all kindred Powers the heart finds fair:-- Truth, with awed lips; and Hope, with eyes upcast; And Fame, whose loud wings fan the ashen Past To signal-fires, Oblivion's flight to scare; And Youth, with still some single golden hair Unto his shoulder clinging, since the last Embrace wherein two sweet arms held him fast; And Life, still wreathing flowers for Death to wear. Love's throne was not with these; but far above All passionate wind of welcome and farewell

Estoy convencido que hay dos tipos de personas que pasan por este mundo. Los que se divierten y aquellos que sienten que la vida es una gran fiesta y no les llegó la invitación.

Vivir sin enamorarse perdidamente es no haber vivido en absoluto.

el motivo. Puede que la vida no sea la fiesta que esperabas, pero mientras estés aquí, tienes que bailar. Después de todo, la vida no se mide en minutos, sino en momentos.

You dont allways chose what happens to you, but only you can allways chose your attitude. Attitude is your ultimate life tool, sharpen it because you will need it.

A day here lasts a lifetime. You're born at dawn. You grow up at noon. You die at twilight. Tomorrow you change bodies.

But I treasure those nightmares. They're the only thing that's left of my life from before.

L'instant du départ est si longtemps inscrit en nous que le moment où il arrive nous semblera toujours banal.

Toujours trop d'espoir devant soi. Et trop de déceptions derrière soi. La vie est ce long ruban qui se déroule sans temps morts et dans un mouvement souple qui alterne espoir et déception.

Bolshoi…A mother's life, one long errand. One enormous chore.

She senses, for the first time, how far away one can be from one's own life, how contentedly distant. The gaping enormity of the universe, its endless possibility… She feels it, an aura, an inkling - the illusion of absolute freedom.

But Drew liked the simplicity of her downsized life, this quieter existence. One needed, she saw now, only a few belongings, just as one needed only a few close friends, and a single passion - it need not be a person, necessarily.

When I asked if she read poetry anymore, she said no. she had lost her taste for it. That was how she said it, lost her taste. I asked how that could happen, and she said she agreed with Plato, or at least Plato as summarized for her: that there was something dishonest about it and that he was right to want to banish the poets. What she mean't, she told me, was that the only reality was life, real life, and that these beautiful versions were lies and she no longer had patience for it.

Life itself is a gift. It's a compliment just being born: to feel, breathe, think, play, dance, sing, work, make love, for this particular lifetime. Today, let's give thanks for life. For life itself. For simply being born!

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

Sometimes life sends us lessons in ridiculous packaging.

and now I laugh at how the world changed me, and I think life chose me . . . after all.

Because once you're born you might feel all of those things," Boris was saying. "In any order. And you can't control it." Daniel looked up, but Boris had turned away from him, his eyes staring at the ground. He held him tighter. "Maybe it will never happen," Boris said, and blinked. "I hope it never will. But if it does, I want you to be prepared.

Many days and years and people had passed before she understood that the details themselves were the still and sacred things, that there was nothing else, that the curtain of daily life itself was holy, that behind it was only a void.

Eventually Honi asked God to kill him, because he realized he had become superfluous. Which in fact was the entire purpose of life, to live in such a way that one made oneself superfluous. And therein lay the root of the problem. There was no point in any of it, none at all, unless one had plans to leave.