Quotes About Life

Oh God, I'm old and I've never been young.

Problems are part of life, it's the state of mind that eventually get's disturbed. They say "Lessons with trust and trustfulness are eventually learned with negative experiences.

Sometimes in life you know the right path, but you need to leave it as your ego becomes more important than it.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' I realized then where the problem lay. My students, and so many of our young people today, want a good life. They love (even if they don't always appreciate) liberty. They all want to be happy. But I realized that day that my class was a microcosm of what is wrong with some any of nation's young people. What happened to pursuit? We aren't handed happiness. We're given an opportunity to pursue it.

I don't know if I liked my life then, I just lived it.

I can't promise my child a life without bias — we're all biased — but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.

Death and destruction are necessary to the health of the world, and therefore as natural, and lovable, as birth and life. Only priests and born cowards moan and weep over dying. Brave men face it with approving nonchalance.

Life is strife for every man, for every son of thunder; Then be a lion not a lamb, and don't be trampled under.

Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

The life circle, no different than for us. Sometimes it's brutal and intense, but without it there would be no life.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Us the most fleeting of all. Just once,everything, only for once. Once and no more. And we, too,once. And never again. But thishaving been once, though only once,having been once on earth—can it ever be canceled?

Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.

Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.

I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.

The great sages of my Indian heritage had cultivated equanimity and detachment in the face of life's challenges, and I strove to emulate them by accepting what had happened to me with as much grace as I could muster.

If we realize the divinity that enlivens all life forms on our planet , we will spread peace and love wherever we go.

Love turns life into a blooming paradise.

Human beings were not made for time, time was made for human beings.

Life's spiritual texture is the texture of love.