Quotes About Life

Sex is like fire or water. Fire and water can aid a man … or kill him. —Taoist proverb

Learn to love your loopy life!

Trusting God makes life worth living.

My personality permeates everything I do, including how I relate to God.

God created us to need Him in the same way we need air.

Without the air of prayer, we die spiritually.

For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

Few maxims are true in every respect.

Like a true nature's childWe were born, born to be wildWe can climb so highI never wanna die

You are all I have. You are the single most important thing in my life and I want to know you are safe. Do that much for me, Catherine. Live for me, live for our son. I will always be a part of you, whatever happens, and you will always be a part of me. Nothing can change that. Nothing.

The desire to commit suicide, however, has at its base a belief that life cannot or will not improve. Although that may be the case in some instances, it is not true in all instances. Death, however, rules out hope in all instances. We do not have any data indicating that people who are dead lead better lives.

There's never a good time for Mindfulness, and there's never a bad time. Mindfulness is one of those things you simply do, because if you practice being aware - completely open to the universe, just exactly as it is - you will transform your life in time.

Acceptance can transform but if you accept in order to transform, it is not acceptance. It is like loving. Love seeks no reward but when given freely comes back a hundredfold. He who loses his life finds it. He who accepts, changes.

To him, Layla's promising aroma was not a reminder of a long-lost boyhood or the instigator of teenage lust. No, for Malachy, the sight of Layla's exotic profile filling up a bag of white onions was a sign, a resounding 'yes' to the age-old questions of the divine. Yes, there was a God. Yes, there was life beyond the sleepy valleys of Ballinacroagh. Yes, there 'were' undiscovered universes waiting just for him. And one of them was standing right before him, in all her astounding milky ways.

Baggage is how you carry the good stuff.

I never said I knew much. How was I supposed to learn anything living out here? I didn't know enough to do half the things I did in my life. Things happen. You do what you can about them and you see what happens next.

The Austrian-born Israeli philosopher Martin Buber describes this quality of presence that life demands of us: "In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you.

Nonviolent Communication can change the world. More importantly, it can change your life. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

When we speak a language that denies choice, we forfeit the life in ourselves for a robotlike mentality that disconnects us from our own core.

an important form of self-compassion is to make choices motivated purely by our desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, duty, or obligation.

He said that the greatest pains or pleasures of this world are not to be compared with what he had experienced of both kinds in the spiritual life. He worried about nothing and feared nothing. His only desire is not to offend God. He did not beat himself up when he sinned. He said, "When I fail in my duty to God, I immediately acknowledge it, saying, 'All I do is sin, and I shall never do otherwise if I am left to myself.