Quotes About Life

Your loss is not a test, a lesson, something to handle, a gift, or a blessing. Loss is simply what happens to you in life. Meaning is what you make happen.

The will to save a life is not the power to stop a death.

People often say, "I don't know how you're doing it." I tell them that I'm not. I'm not deciding to wake up in the morning. I just do. Then I put one foot in front of the other because there's nothing else to do. Whether I like it or not, my life is continuing, and I have decided to be part of it.

While death may look like a loss to the living, the last hours of a dying person may very well be filled with fullness rather than emptiness.

grief is optional in this lifetime. Yes, it's true. You don't have to experience grief, but you can only avoid it by avoiding love. Love and grief are inextricably intertwined.

Your loss is not a test, a lesson, something to handle, a gift, or a blessing. Loss is simply what happens to you in life. Meaning is what you make happen Only you can find your own meaning Meaningful connections will heal painful memories

Love and grief come as a package deal. If you love, you will one day know sorrow.

She realized that for the dying butterflies were a symbol of transformation, not of death, but of life continuing, no matter what. Although your relationship with your loved one will change after death, it will also continue, no matter what. The challenge will be to make it a meaningful one.

life ends, but love is eternal.

Viktor Frankl says there are only three that matter. To do work that matters to you, to care for others, and to rise to the challenge of difficult times. Work, love, courage. That's it. Any other human pursuit is horseshit.

You can't find happiness; happiness finds you. We are completely passive in the act of our own contentment because it isn't an act. It's a result. For the first time in years, she was living an uncomplicated life, and happiness had resulted.

More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.

I tell yeh, Bright-eyes. Men and women? A bloody mess. Every time.

If we think that God loves us only if we act in a certain way, we will see our lives as a time of testing. We need to rise to the challenge, to avoid mistakes, to labor to do the right thing. But if God is Love loving, our life is a time of growing and maturing. "All the things in this world" are ways to become closer to God.

Mr. Nath and I talked further about the pilgrimage. Examining his hand he said, 'I wonder what it will look like after I finish this pilgrimage.' What do you mean?' I asked. 'Do you expect this pilgrimage to change your hand?' It must,' he replied. 'This pilgrimage changes one's life. The change must be evident in the lines of one's hands.

The logical tendency of modernity, in its dominant liberal form, is to look on love as at best a matter of piety or good will, and not as the very stuff that makes our lives and the things of the world real, the basic order of our lives and of all things.

what matters is not that we believe in God. God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.

Just think if life could be like that sometimes... If joy could express itself with the same force as pain.

To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent. It means venturing out in many directions all at the same time,

Life is constantly treating us to illusory connections.

the sleeper shark can live to the age of four hundred years, because it exists in slow motion.

Where are you going?" Turing had asked. "Nowhere." "Me too.

una estrella se mantiene con vida gracias a dos fuerzas contrapuestas: por un lado, la de las explosiones nucleares internas, que tienden a expandirla y, por otro, la de la gravedad, que la mantiene unida en su conjunto.

N'est-ce pas ce qui est si beau dans la vie, le fait que nous ayons parfois l'occasion d'être stupéfaits ?