Quotes About Life

It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas.

Death comes, and makes a man his prey, A man whose powers are yet unspent; Like one on gathering flowers intent, Whose thoughts are turned another way. Begin betimes to practise good, Lest fate surprise thee unawares Amid thy round of schemes and cares; To-morrow?s task to-day conclude.*

Such deeds as thou with fear and grief Wouldst, on a sick-bed laid, recall, In youth and health eschew them all, Remembering life is frail and brief.

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Like the air, God's Grace is available to us. It is permeating every fibre of Being and the Being of the entire universe. When we take our attention to that Being, finer than the finest, then we establish ourselves on the level of God's Grace. Immediately we just enjoy. Life is Bliss!

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.

Expansion of happiness is the purpose of creation.

All problems of life arise from some weakness of mind. All weakness of mind is due to the mind's ignorance of its own essential nature, which is universal and the source of infinite energy and intelligence.

Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

We are all living in the world, and we are part of what is going on all around us. We have things to do, people to see, places to visit. But if that is all we are doing, we are missing out on the point of living. The point is to respond to the heart of God and be conformed to the likeness of Jesus, who is the image of the invisible One. Our quest in this life is the ecstasy of communion that can never be broken. This is not religiosity. It is real spirituality, and there is a difference.

Quand la poisse vous étreint dans le ventre de votre mère, elle ne vous lâche plus.

The prerequisite to life is not power. The prerequisite to cohabitation, reconciliation, and a common political future is to give up the monopoly of power.

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.

I leave the other side of my life where it wants to stay, and follow the remainder of my life in search of the other side of it.

Perhaps death is a metaphor to remind us of a secret of life we failed to notice.

There is no name for what life should be, except what you did and what you do to my soul.

I testify that I am free and alive when I am forgotten

Are we what we do with time, or are we what time does with us?

I used to love winter, and I would listen to it, drop by drop. Rain, rain like an appeal to a lover, Pour down my body! Winter was not lament pointing to the end of life. It was the beginning. It was hope. So what shall I do, as life falls like hair? What will I do this winter?