Quotes About Life

I have prepared for death all of my life by the life I lived." Socrates was at peace with himself.

So, what you're basically telling me is death is boring but no worse than hanging out with family.

I can tell you that she's not breathing," he said. "She has no heartbeat and all organ function and brain activity have stopped. Also her body temperature is now at seventy-three degrees." "So you're saying that she's dead," I said. "Well, I can't prove it, but, yes, I am leaning that way.

That he would pause In his killing To go about the business Of preparing for the living Knowing That he will immediately return To the business of killing?

I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.

Lying On The Grass The solid earth has never yet complained. There is only the slight scrape Of the accommodating grass Adjusting around your body its bent blades. Part the grass with fingertips To follow the travels of ants And expeditions of other insects Through the weeds. On your forearm A light green mite Is blown when you breathe From its perch, a sunlit hair.

Two Stories Up, The Cat Looks Down When the blind is lifted, positioning itself On the edge of the desk near the bay window Several times a day The cat looks down. Many people when the sun is out Come and go, beneath. Among its sightings are Young fathers with a son or daughter shouldered Holding with a consistently light touch the held-out legs Like wishbones.

Everything changes, he thinks. The woman is gone and the world turns.

Dine augo dei opnar mitt hjarta og seier at livet finst til Dine augo dei opnar mitt hjarta og gjer at eg nok ein gong vil

Kjærleiken er den ande som gjer at vi finst til Kjærleiken er den vande som vil og ikkje vil Kjærleiken er ei lykke og han er sorga di, han går der bak eit stykke og så går han forbi Kjærleiken er som lyset, det kjem og det forsvinn Kjærleiken er det gyset som seier tap og vinn

what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in it...

a person comes from God and goes back to God, I think, for the body is conceived and born, it grows and declines, it dies and vanishes, but the spirit is a unity of body and soul, the way form and content are an invisible unity in a good picture...

what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in it..." ? Jon Fosse

She wrote Dear James. She went on to say nothing directly about his friendliness or her loneliness. If she replied with the whole truth - why wouldn't she feel lonely at times? - he might be encouraged to do more probing and destroy one of the qualities she most enjoyed about this correspondence: giving or withholding at will. Wasn't that the great advantage of living one's life alone, the control?

we all come into and go out of this world as passing gatherings of structured energy.

There can be no resolution leading to growth until the present situation has been faced completely and you have opened to it with mindfulness, allowing the roughness of the situation itself to sand down your own rough edges. In other words, you must be willing to let life itself become your teacher.

Can we be in touch with our own life unfolding? Can we rise to the occasion of our own humanity? Can we take on the challenges we meet, even seeking them out to test ourselves, to grow, to act in a principled way, to be true to ourselves, to find our own way, and ultimately not only have it but, more importantly, live it?

Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely, the path that is your life. Meditation may help us see that this path we call our life has direction; that it is always unfolding, moment by moment; and that what happens now, in this moment, influences what happens next.

Maybe we have an exaggerated belief that we have to stay in bed just to get through the day or that we can't go out of the house and do things. Views like these lead readily to what is sometimes referred to as "illness behavior." We begin to build our psychological life around our preoccupations with our illness, injury, or disability, while the rest of our life is on hold and unfortunately atrophying along with the body.

If we are to grasp the reality of our life while we have it, we will need to wake up to our moments. Otherwise, whole days, even a whole life, could slip past unnoticed.

Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath. KABIR

If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life. WU-MEN

We are not meditating to make anything go away, any more than we are meditating to attain some special state or feeling. Whether we are basically healthy at the moment or have a terminal illness, none of us knows how long we have to live.

The more you practice, the more skill you can develop in reducing pain or at least becoming more transparent to it, so that it is less eroding of your quality of life.