Quotes About Life

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.

Enthusiasm is the nature of life. Become one whose enthusiasm never dies.

Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.

Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.

The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.

Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.

Grief is nature's most powerful aphrodisiac.

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.

The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit.

As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers?

Actually, the mysteries of water are similar to those of the blood in the human body. In Nature, normal functions are fulfilled by water just as blood provides many important functions for mankind.