Quotes About Life

If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

To settle is to die. To not settle implies that death is avoidable.

They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.

Were the whole realm of nature mine That were an offering far too small Love so amazing so divine Demands my soul my life my all

Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.

la vida es ante todo luz y se necesita muy poco para apagar esa luz.

Es gibt Dinge im Leben, um die man kämpfen muss, weil die Zeit, die dafür bleibt, manchmal kürzer ist, als wir glauben.

Hon såg att hon var ensam i världen och omgiven av kraftfulla fjärran krafter som bara var bundna av det att leva."

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

When love exists, nothing else matters, not life's predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.

The Daughter was weary at her spinning, and reflected aloud, "What if we really could spin coarse straw into fine, pure strands of gold?" "If you could accomplish that miracle," her mother admonished, "the responsibility it would entail would tax and exhaust you — mind and body — far beyond the demands of the quotidian tasks you have been given. How blessed it is to live a human, limited life.

One more preference enters into the identification of type—the choice between the perceptive attitude and the judging attitude as a way of life, a method of dealing with the world around us.

By developing individual strengths, guarding against weaknesses, and appreciating the strengths of other types, life will be more amusing, more interesting, and more of a daily adventure than it could possibly be if everyone were alike.

Ein Leben voller Reisen, Abenteuer und Gefahr, Sehen und Lernen, verherrlicht durch die Liebe - das wünsche ich mir

Faith is the belief that this life is not our only chance. Wavering of faith means beginning to believe in this life and wanting to live it, denying all duties and dashing off uncontrolled.

All we have are our stories," said Edward.

How wonderful it must be, to be unable to remember things that once caused us distress. Yet we should embrace all our memories, whether joyful or painful. They're all we ever really own in this life.

Tout le grand charme poignant de la vie vient peut-être de la certitude absolue de la mort. Si les choses devaient durer, elles nous sembleraient indignes d'attachement.

No prayers, no medicines, merely the ineffable happiness of dying.

Quand mon coeur souffrait, il commençait à vivre.

Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance for us. Dance us the sweetness of life. Give us again the sweetness and the beauty of the true dance, give us again the joy of seeing the simple unconscious pure body of a woman. Like a great call it has come, and women must hear it and answer it.