Quotes About Life

You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that!

We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.

It is in your power to point the way to a less dangerous and happier life.

The most important part of living life on your own terms and having it all is having faith and belief in yourself and in the intelligent power that created you.

The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.

Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For better or worse. God puts us all in each other's lives to impact one another in some way.

Hellraisers destroy only themselves, and they do it because they love life too much to fall asleep.

There was so much life wrapped up in that pony's hide that it was mighty hard for him to settle down and behave...he sometimes had to bust out and do things that wasn't at all proper...

I am blessed. I am blessed because I am going to go long before any of them do. I am not going to have to grieve for them, because they are going to have to grieve for me.

I have brought light into this world, and I have been given light from this world. And what light it is! I can say that I have lived. Can you say that you have lived? You must be able to say that you have lived. I have loved, and I have been loved. That is all we should want This is all you have to do right now. It's right in front of you.

The grief doesn't leave. It becomes a part of you. Either you learn to live with it or you die. ... But grief just sits there.

The factors that make work life stressful and overwhelming mostly include the lack of control over critical variables in your job, especially being marginalized from decision making.

Performance-based assessments, where students actually have to do something with what they know, tell us volumes more about their readiness for life than bubble sheets or contrived essays. No

All you need to grow fine, vigorous grass is a crack in your sidewalk.

We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Lord, let me live until I die.

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me; I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way, and some of the roads weren't paved.

We're all in the end-of-your-life book-club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read--books about people and things that matter, books about life and death.

For this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.

As for me, I'm on a search and have been, I now realize, all my life - to find books to help me make sense of the world, to help me become a better person, to help me get my head around the big questions that I have and answer some of the small ones while I'm at it.

I read to live. I read for life.