Quotes About Life

Sure I arn't a cabbage, that if you pull it out of the ground it must die.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.

Who says life is fair, where is that written?

In summer the rich pond water was a vat of ripe simmering fruit, of varnish color: golden in the sun, holding like a rich syrup all the stock and plankton of the woods: loam-wealth, growth richness, leaf and sap goodness, the potlikker of the secret woods—all untouched and rare and gamy. There lolled fat, torpid, safe fish, bobbling languorously over in the thick piny syrup, bubbling their rubbery globules, like plump ripe fruit in their juices.

Our disposition toward the ills which our fellow-man inflicts on us through malice or meddling is quite different from our disposition toward the ills which are inherent in the conditions of human life.

Sentiment is thrown back into private life, into personal relations, and

I don't have any wonderful insights that other people don't have. I just have slightly more consistently than others avoided idiocy. Other people are trying to be smart. All I'm trying to be is non-idiotic. I find that all you have to do to get ahead in life is to be non-idiotic and live a long time. It's harder to be non-idiotic than most people think.

It's simple. If your life is more important than your principles, you sacrifice your principles. If your principles are more important than your life, you sacrifice your life.

A television reporter once asked Bob Marley, "Are you a rich man?" The musician replied warily, "What you mean rich?" The reporter clarified his question: "You have a lot of possessions? A lot of money in the bank?" Marley responded with a question of his own: "Possessions make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is life, forever.

First, they provide a compelling example of what it means to pursue quality as a guiding principle in business, investing, and life—a moral and intellectual commitment inspired by Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Not only is it not necessary to read "Interview With the Vampire" by Anne Rice before you die, it is also probably not necessary to read it even if, like Lestat, you are never going to die. If I were mortally ill, and a well-meaning friend pressed Anaïs Nin's "Delta of Venus" into my trembling hands, I would probably leave this world with a curse on my lips.

But he maintains the power of holiness that exerts this vigorously in his daily walking; as he the power of natural life, in whom the principle of life seated in the heart empowers every member to do its particular office in the body strenuously. Thus walked the primitive Christians, 'in whose veins,' saith Jerome, 'the blood of Christ was yet warm.

Third. It is holiness, and that maintained in its power, that capacitates us for communion with God in this life.

All the pains and aches man feels in his life are but so many singultus morientis naturœ—groans of a dying nature; they tell him his dissolution is at hand.

Him that hath not God before he dies, the devil shall have when he dies.

The Jewish Talmud pro pounds this question, Why God made man vesperâ Sabbathi?—on the evening before the Sabbath? and gives this as one reason, ut protinus intraret in præ ceptum—that is, God made man on the evening just before the Sabbath, that he might forthwith enter upon the observation of the command to sanctify the Sabbath, and begin his life as it were with the worship of God,

And I pray, what is our life in this world but a dark night of temptation?

This is thy birth-day; thou wert before, but beganst to live when Christ began to live in thee. The

Had God made thee rich and great in the world, but not holy, he had but given thee stock to trade with for hell. These

Thus we might say to such selfish mourners, 'We perceive that if thou couldst but save the life of thy soul from eternal death and damnation, though the glory of God miscarried, thou couldst be pleased well enough.

So that now all those ways whereby God directly made known his mind to this people, are resolved into this one of the Scriptures, which we are to receive as the undoubted word of God, containing in a perfect rule of faith and life, and to expect no other revelation of his mind to us.