Quotes About Life

Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man—yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Remember that no man loses other life than that which he lives, nor lives other than that which he loses.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Simt c? port în mine dou? inimi, e ca ?i cum a? tr?i o a doua via?? — cea din vis.

I have examined you long enough. I have read your heart, and written out your secrets! You are but a shell-the shell that holds a corrupted and sinful heart. He shall live; you shall die!

The scientist does not study Nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If Nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if Nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.' One

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life

If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Salvation Is More About This Life than an Afterlife

This thing is not going to last forever, and the flaming ferris wheel will continue to spin without you.

One day I'm not gonna be here. Then it's gonna be you two, by yourselves, and I want you to understand how rough and unfair this world is. I want you both prepared for whatever the hell might come your way.

It's unbelievable what you can do when the threat to your own life is that bad.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Do not expect good from another's death.