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Quotes About Life

Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
~ Seneca the Younger
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
~ Seneca the Younger
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
~ Seneca the Younger
When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When you consider Life as sacred,Nature waits on you
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The Buddha said that samsara by its nature is painful. He didn't say it was a joyride.
~ Tenzin Palmo
What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
~ Thomas Carlyle
It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.
~ Tony Parsons
Lasting fulfillment is attained only through gaining insight into the core of our human nature, unleashing the power to understand, appreciate, and enjoy our lives at the deepest level.
~ Tony Robbins
As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.
~ Vanessa Veselka
There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Some touch of Nature's genial glow.
~ Walter Scott
As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!
~ William Wordsworth
Water is the driving force in nature.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer
~ John Keats
Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at once of filthy rags and the best damask...
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
What a piece of work is man!
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit I can because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
~ Alice Walker