Quotes About Life

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

I love you. Have a hell of a good time. I don't really know what else is worth having.

If there is a war, then all of the things most of us do won't matter any more. I have a feeling that one has to work all day and all night and live too, and swim and get the sun one's hair and laugh and love as many people as one can find around and do this all terribly fast, because the time getting shorter and shorter every day.

He had no other life and no other knowledge; he knew that he could not live anywhere now because in his mind, slyly, there was nothing but horror.

What gave these krauts a right to say who should be born and who shouldn't, and who could live and be let alone, and who would get caught and killed?

We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable it is nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissastifaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

you have to deal with yourself and your beliefs about life, about people, and about motivation and trust.

When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.

You can gussy them up with all the pretty rationales you want, but most major life decisions are whims.

Almost everyone who feels stymied, aimless, directionless is carrying an unresolved emotional wound. A lack of enthusiasm for life is always a sign that the deep self is hurt. Every person's essential self is pure, productive energy, and yours will return and send you into a fulfilling life almost automatically if your psyche is in good repair.

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

Faithfulness, not perfection, is rewarded by the Lord. That's because we can no more live a sinless life than we can make our children do the same thing. Only our Lord Jesus is he "who knew no sin" (2 Cor. 5:21). He never sinned, but we do, and he knew we would need his help and encouragement to raise our children faithfully as he desires.

Certainly, we are to prayerfully strive to obey, but it is only by God's grace helping us that anything good and pleasing comes out of our lives.

For example, we must teach our children what it means to fear and love God (Prov. 1:7 and Matt. 22:37-40). They need to understand that their lives are, first of all, about a relationship with God.

these severely traumatized patients, people who have been through living nightmares, people who might blamelessly choose death, often emerge from successful treatment by constructing lives for themselves that are freer than most ordinary lives from what Sigmund Freud, a century ago, labeled as "everyday misery." They become true keepers of the faith and are the most passionately alive people I know. Or

I didn't need as much air as humans did, but I needed some, and it was really cold out there, in the colony ship's shadow. This meant that if the life-tender failed it would take me longer to die so I'd have longer to feel dumb about it than a human would.

That isn't how this works, expositor." Then he peeled Tarrow's soul from his body and ate his life.

Look, if there were space monsters, they probably wouldn't need a pressurized environment, right?

She eyed Moon without favor. "And you. You have to be coaxed to do everything except risk your life.

Like so many aspects of mortal life, sleep was overrated.