Quotes About Life

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom add what will equal the generous first growths of our youth, yet friendship becomes insensibly old in much less time than is commonly imagined, and not many years are required to make it mellow and pleasant.

They are such thin things, these lives of ours; cheap got, cheap lost, mere flickers against the ever dark, brief shadows on a wall. This life no more substantial than breath, a light which fills the chambers of our bodies, and is gone.

People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.

Life is very marvelous ... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.

My staff is a twig from Yggdrasill, the tree of universal life: Thersitês gave it me, and the sap that throbs therein arises from the Undar fountain, where the grave Norns make laws for men and fix their destinies.

All moves uncomprehendingly, and to the sound of laughter.

Adventure and excitement are the two things missing from civilization. Danger keeps you on your toes. You'll never feel as alive as when death is over your shoulder.

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

Live as long as you can. Die when you can't help it.

It takes a long time to ruin a life. It all starts with the stories we live by.

Christianity doesn't answer all my questions or make me comfortable and happy. What it does do is give me a context for living.

spiritual life is not a life of laws and precepts but a life of participation, affection and love, a life mingled and mixing with God.

Christ in me" means Christ bearing me along from within, Christ the motive power that carries me on, Christ giving my whole life a wonderful poise and lift, and turning every burden into wings . . . not as something you have to bear but as something by which you are borne.

Luck and Joy and Grief and I Set off together into the world of existence Luck lay down and Joy ran off But Grief and I go wandering on.

Cassius laughed, genuinely amused. "You truly are a fool, Priest." He shook his head. "A treasure … I've never heard it called that." "It represents life." "It represents death, Priest—it is death.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said … that he had a lot of issues in his life, most of which never happened.

Uma tribo de índios americanos tem um velho ditado que diz: "Quando você nasceu, você chorou e o mundo se regozijou. Viva sua vida de tal maneira que, quando você morrer, o mundo chore e você se regozije.

Há apenas duas coisas na vida que vocês têm que fazer. Vocês têm que morrer e fazer escolhas. Dessas não há como escapar.

results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.

Christian spiritual formation requires that we actively and continually receive from God. We need to be extraordinary consumers of grace; we need to receive his words of love and correction, his forgiveness, his affirmation, his life, and the list goes on. Without receiving from God, there is no true formation.

It is essential for us all to realize that admitting to brokenness is not to doubt the healing and restoring grace of God. Rather, the brokenness needs to call us to a dynamic discipleship, which grows through faith beyond the mere acknowledgment that brokenness is all that we can expect from life.

Take out all but one bullet and it was Russian Roulette. In Mexican Roulette, as he'd heard it defined, you took out only one. In Drunk Mexican Roulette you didn't take out any.