Quotes About Life

Beautiful hours move so quickly. ? Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly . (Berkley; 2nd ed. edition January 4, 2005) Originally published 1966

Hadn't you rather thank Heaven that she escaped what life had to offer her? And isn't it a blessing that society escaped a multiplication of her kind? Come, Julie, death may be the great equalizer; let's not give in to the hypocrisy that it is the great glorifier.

How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd...

A whole new life at fifty, all because I had become entranced with both the Turkish culture and with Kazim—who one friend called a careening festival of a human being and another called an alcoholic Kurdish carpet salesman. I called him a catalyst.

Yesterday is the cancelled cheque, tomorrow is the promisery note and today is the cash u have so spend it wisely .

In 1996 I began an investigation into the life of John Rabe and eventually unearthed thousands of pages of diaries that he and other Nazis kept during the Rape. These diaries led me to conclude that John Rabe was "the Oskar Schindler of China.

We curse out loud instead of loving out loud! Our words and thoughts produce life or death. We choose! God gave us the freedom to choose good or evil, peace or worry, contentment or depression, healing or sickness, order or disorder, wealth or poverty, knowledge or illiteracy,

about death and violence. Noah would deny it.

Taking a life diminishes the taker. - Kadar den Arnaud

was everything. Eve

I was so determined to experience everything and everyone I could that I don't think I ever stopped to truly appreciate any of it. Then, somewhere along the way, I realized it's important to have a good reason to experience the things in my life. Not just because they're there.

All those years, all the frustration, just sapped the life out of him. No one is going to do that to me.

That's what's most frightening. You can live your life in the best way, the most moral way possible, and it doesn't make any difference. A madman chooses you at random and takes away everything. It's not fair.

That's why we all have to live every moment as if it were our last and not close ourselves off.

We all die. I can't promise to live forever." His arms tightened around her. "But I can promise to love you as long as I live.

I don't believe God will punish you for looking differently at the pattern of life. God is good, it's man who is evil. - Ware

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality" says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?

These—the shared, simple acts of everyday life—are the realities on which international understanding can be built.

every subject under the sun, was seen only in its relation to vested interests. So complete, so whole-hearted was his preoccupation that after an hour's conversation I began to wonder whether I had not been incredibly naïve in believing there was any other governing motive in human life.

I hardly ever dream, which is probably a reflection of the fact that I live my life fully and consciously. I solve my problems while awake and, as a result, spend my sleeping hours resting, not receiving inane messages.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. —Woody Allen

May you live as long as you want, And never want as long as you live.