Quotes About Life

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.

An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

What nature creates has eternity in it.

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

As with everything in nature, if your life isn't supported by a grounded source of energy, it will wither and lose its vitality.

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure.

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.

Quantum field theory arose out of our need to describe the ephemeral nature of life.

Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.