Quotes About Life

One thing has led to the next in my life, but like lines of a poem. I suppose I've thrown in my lot with love, and don't know any other way to go on breathing.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

The flip side of credit is blame. A tendency to blame others, or circumstances, is generally a recipe for unhappiness in life.

Tao is very often the Way that each individual has to follow if [one person] wishes to accord with the great cosmic principles that govern life instead of putting up a futile resistance to them at the cost of needless stress and frustration.52

Hard to know is the deity of Abraxas.... Abraxas [is] life, altogether indefinite, the mother of good and evil. Abraxas begetteth truth and lying, good and evil, light and darkness. [Abraxas] is the hermaphrodite of the earliest beginning. It is abundance that seeketh union with emptiness. It is holy begetting. It is love and love's murder. It is the appearance and the shadow of man.

Jung discerned that "the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."100

but both are necessary for a creative, whole life. "Fire is spirit, water is vitality. Alchemists sometimes say that Buddhism starts with fire while Taoism starts with water."134

The life of the spirit comes from the prior death of the mind. If people kill the mind, the original comes alive. Killing the mind does not mean quietism, it means undivided concentration.29

Bob] Dylan said, "I don't have to B.S. anybody like those guys up on Broadway that're always writin' about 'I'm hot for you and you're hot for me--ooka dooka dicka dee.' There's other things in the world besides love and sex that're important too. People shouldn't turn their backs on 'em just because they ain't pretty to look at. How is the world ever gonna get any better if we're afraid to look at these things.

One reason that Americans as a people became nostalgic about the fifties more than twenty-five years later was not so much that life was better in the fifties (though in some ways it was), but because at the time it had been portrayed so idyllically on television.

He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted.

because love is a critical ingredient in the fireman's code, which demands that you are willing to risk your life for your fire-house brothers.

That did not augur well, for these alienated, complacent workers, whether they knew it or not, were under challenge from purposeful, disciplined workers around the world, and their jobs and their whole way of life were in the balance.

Louisa went about her duties at the hospital, trying not to dwell on the fact that this might be her last day alive.

Foster golf club and cemetery - Only one stroke away from each other...

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

The presence of the Holy Spirit brings life. His nearness is refreshing and restores the vitality of your soul.

My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.

His dad, dying in the hospital, had said something about pain. It stuck to you like flour. You thought you could wash it all away, out of your clothes, out of your hair. But some stray grain always persisted, slyly avoiding your well-meant attentions and the drugs the doctors had. Life was like that. The only thing to do, he said, was your best.

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

I think I'm greedy, but I'm not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I'm greedy for an exciting life.