Quotes About Life

Holding a majority in the decisions that impact people's lives, life, should mean that you hold a majority in wisdom, reason, soul.

Life – a sort of a plate of real-imaginary from which I nibble together with the birds of light and darkness, with the poor and well-to-do of the world at grains of to be once rough (like sharp stones), other times more like the pulp of pomegranates and ripe figs; stairs I have to climb in myself and climb down… to sometimes walk along the roads of infinity, other times, how many, to stop before the first step, waiting for the path home…

Love – a carousel that anyone rides for as long as he can last out of how much he is willing to pay. Life, for most of us, also.

Roses don't die, they return to the light.

The heart – a living clock that houses loved souls in nameless cities.

The opposite of death is soul.

The true thinker is on the side of justice, of reason, of life.

We are born to experience blossoming, ripening and wasting.

We are made from clay, water, sun, air, and dream, and we feed on clay, water, air, sun, and dream. We are rains, snows, suns, we are seasons without the right to go back.

Sean was young, vibrant, capable. Life hadn't even begun to digest his hope.

Marianne Faithfull

It's funny, how you realize things too late. Someone once said to me the tragedy about life is that you understand it backwards. But I don't think so. I think the tragedy about life is there is no tragedy - you just don't know it till you die." — Patty Belle Bellani

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Därer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.

Durer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

curro?… Usté es de otra madera, y la verdá, no entiendo cómo pueda gustarle esta vida. ¿Qué cree que uno anda aquí por su puro gusto?… Cierto, ¿a qué negarlo?, a uno le cuadra el ruido; pero no sólo es eso… Siéntese, curro, siéntese para contarle. ¿Sabe por qué me levanté?… Mire, antes de la revolución tenía yo hasta mi tierra volteada para sembrar, y si no hubiera sido por el

La ley del gusto termina en la mediocridad, en una vida que dejó pasar las oportunidades de llenar este mundo de belleza, de verdad y de amor[6].

Seguir las pasiones sin otros puntos de referencia conduce a la tragedia vital.

quién es más libre? ¿Quien se reserva todas las posibilidades por temor a perderlas, o quien se dedica "decididamente" a servir y así se encuentra lleno de vida por el amor que ha dado y recibido

En el mundo en que vivimos, con sus luces y sus sombras, afirmar que uno se realiza con el don sincero de sí —siguiendo las huellas de Jesús— significa ciertamente ir a contracorriente. Son muchas las voces que se alzan con una propuesta contraria: "Piensa en ti mismo, no te compliques la vida, vive para ti". Pareciera que el darse a los demás nos quitase la libertad de hacer lo que nos da la gana.

Quien se encierra en sí mismo para custodiar su libertad se convierte en esclavo de su propia pequeñez, mientras que quien se olvida de sí mismo para darse a los demás ensancha su libertad y ayuda a liberar a los demás: quien conserve su vida la perderá, mientras quien pierde su vida la ganará (cfr. Mt 10, 39).

Annie had wondered then if it was true, if the most important things in people's lives were also the most sorrowful, if saying good-bye altered a person in ways that saying 'I love you' could not.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ­ and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.