Quotes About Life

Cada ave com as asas estendidas é um livro de duas folhas aberto no céu. Feio crime é roubar ou destruir essa miúda biblioteca de Deus. - o homem que calculava

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

All around these streets , the dead and forgotten - mostly travellers born three thousand miles away, and four hundred years once dreamed and schemed, full of sound and fury. They were real and vital, as yet undimmed by posterity, and lived and loved with every imaginable kind of human feeling until at last they returned to dust.

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

No se puede vivir sin amar

The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart of all the simplicity and peace in the world; was that not like the opportunity afforded man by life itself? Of course not. Still, just for a moment, it had seemed that it was.

Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life!

It's amazing when you come to think of it how the human spirit seems to blossom in the shadow of the abattoir!

hugged and kissed and touched and loved. He lived life large, never

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other

Bad humour is an evasion of reality; good humour is an acceptance of it.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

One thing you learn in life is almost everything your grandmother told you when you were young, and which you thought at the time was just the lunacy of old age, is actually true.

Thriving isn't about making life comfortable, fun and happy; it's about finding purpose and making our own unique contribution.

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

The clock tells you everything and keeps you busy enough to forget that there could be another way of living your life.