Quotes About Life

When I'm standing at the Pearly Gates, I want to say to God, 'Don't look at the records. Look at my family. I'm much prouder about that part.'

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

Birth is the epicenter of women's power

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

I am not the person who is singing I am the silent one inside. . . . I am not my house, my car, my songs They are only stops along my way. . . .

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared

The last birthday that's any good is 23.

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever

If you're gonna live, then live it up. If you're gonna give, then give it up. If you're gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you're gonna say the word, you got to say it loud.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

The past is history, the future is a mystery. But today is a gift...that's why they call it the present. So cherish every minute of it.

I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.

Time is the substance of which we are made