Quotes About Life

Everything you do, everything you'll ever accomplish, your life's work, your kids' life's work: horseshit. (Ecclesiastes) [God Is Disappointed in You]

You are a child of mine, Born of my own design, And you bear the hard of life. No matter where you go, Oh, you will always know, That you've been made free in Christ, And you are a child of mine!

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

It's a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that's only if you're very lucky. And you listen very hard.

Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of self-knowledge. The unexamined life is not a risk for them.

I suspect that on some level, life is a matter of indefensible loyalties.

We own nothing in our lives but perspective.

My dad used to say the best place to look for sympathy was somewhere between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.

An old man who's happy not to have cowshit on his neck.

Grace is the greatest gift anyone could have ever given us. It should humble us, prompt us to make our lives right.

Real life doesn't skip the rough stuff.

How did we take this life picture and somehow misconstrue it to mean that if we just believed in Jesus, our lives would be wealthy, prosperous, and happy? Jesus doesn't promise that. Jesus says that many great things will come to those who follow Him, but He also promises a whole lot of lousy. And here's the key: The lousy isn't rotten. The lousy isn't sin. The focus of your life is not supposed to be dodging lousy. Because lousy is life. And lousy is important.

the tangible benefits of prayer are mere by-products of a healthy prayer life.

Even when choosing stillness we are still moving, our hearts beating, breath flowing, all our systems at work.

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

We're only here for a short while. And I think it's such a lucky accident, having been born, that we're almost obliged to pay attention.

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is like to be. It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living. Even more paradoxically, a poem permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.

How can I sing? Time tells me what I am. I change and I am the same. I empty myself of my life and my life remains.

I grow into my death. My life is small and getting smaller. The world is green. Nothing is all.

Life should be more Than the body's weight working itself from room to room.

Tell me, you people out there, what is poetry anyway? Can anyone die without even a little?