Quotes About Life

It's a lot easier to be crazy or mad than to just get on with living.

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do.

You will die but the carbon will not its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do; and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay for living a thousand lives.

It's the role of narrative to... bridge the gap between philosophy as abstract theory, ideas in the ether, and life as lived on the ground.

We are finite, we are temporal, and we are embodied.

Man must have results, real results, in his inner and outer life. I do not mean the results which modern people strive after in their attempts at self-development. These are not results, but only rearrangements of psychic material, a process the Buddhists call 'samsara' and which our Holy Bible calls 'dust'.

El paso de la Conciencia de sí a la Conciencia de Unidad se produce cuando el acto de observación incorpora todos los contenidos posibles de la experiencia. El Observador unifica todos estos contenidos y por tanto se produce la Unidad del Observador y sus objetos de observación. Esta Conciencia de Unidad es un contacto con la Existencia Pura y tanto la existencia como la vida misma sobrepasan todo intento de explicación teórica.

We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.

We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

One after the other, they were buried under that sky and neither they nor I knew if it was the one under which we'd been born.

Look at them. They're pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first.

Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death.

Perhaps you never have time when are you alive? You only acquire it by watching it go by in others.

The reality is not always our destiny.

If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.

The funerary banquet celebrates a life, often well lived, and the victory is in overcoming and accepting the change that death brings; honoring a loved one at death becomes victorious because it renews the living.

But in this life, he is dog. His life is ocean, stick, ball, sand, grass, ride in the truck, sleep by the bed, look deep into the eyes of humans, lure them outdoors, greet them with a burst of joy when they come home, love them. Fill this brief life with more. And more.

Buying a house is right up there with the holy trinity of death, divorce, and public speaking.

She's a dog warden now, recently vacated from her life as a psychologist. Some sort of career move.