Quotes About Life

The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time (1983) By Edward T. Hall

Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.

I know a lot of things, Mathilda. I have gazed through space telescopes into the heart of the galaxy. I have seen a dawn of four hundred billion suns. It all means nothing without life. You and I are special, Mathilda. We are alive.

Each of the humans chests are always rising and falling; and they sway minutely in place as they perform a constant balancing act to stay bipedal.

Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

I hope this scene isn't playing out all over the nation. People like me struggling to grab what they can. Whole families, even. Grasping at the leftover shards of their lives.

We live, and then forgetting -- we live yet again. Sometimes, the consequences of the past follow us across many lives.

Our babies are the roots we dig into the world.

And pain is simply the price for living.

Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.

The underlying logic of a living thing is its own survival.

We're all dying, Jamie. Some of us faster than others.

How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.

Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.

People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.

Lo característico de la vida actual no son la inseguridad y la crueldad, sino el desasosiego y la pobreza. George Orwell

Votre temps est limité, ne le gâchez pas en menant une existence qui n'est pas la vôtre.

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel --movement through space --provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions --perhaps one of the secret terrors --of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

This sense of time, the awareness that countless others have come before and that others will follow in endless generations, distinguishes man from other animals. With this discovery of the meaning of death—that man's own life is limited—the life of architecture begins. And so begins man the creator's effort to conquer time.

Booker T. Washington wrote that "character, not circumstances", makes the person. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character." While character makes for a good story or poem, in reality we are less shaped by character traits than we think, and more than we realize by the circumstances that life deals us - and our responses to those circumstances.

Even more so in nonindustrialized cultures than in modern Western societies, music is and was part of the fabric of everyday life.

Making sense of a past that made no sense is opening to the sensations of the past and putting them together now to see how they impacted you then, and how you can free yourself to live the life you want now. That's why making sense makes so much integrative sense. We cannot change the past, but we can change how we understand the way it has impacted us and how we liberate ourselves in the present to free ourselves for the future.

But when we integrate those embedded experiences into our present consciousness and recognize them as implicit memories—not valid intuitions or reasoned decisions—then we begin to offer ourselves the means to become awakened and active authors of our own life story.

Cómo gobernemos los años de la adolescencia tiene un impacto directo en cómo viviremos el resto de nuestra vida.