Quotes About Life

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose

These are beautiful days. Folks ask what I'm doing. I tell them I'm doing family.

The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.

All say, 'how hard it is that we have to die' -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.

What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.

Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.

I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get

Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.

I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.

Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.

I'm dying, but so are you

I don't feel like basketball is the only way to make a living.

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

I Intend to Take Time for Myself to Live the Life that I Came Here to Live.

His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.

The only thing some people do is get older.

The magic of life, of course, is not something that can be explained. Structures can only take us to the point where they begin or end. Beyond structures is the white light.

Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.