Quotes About Life

At the end of my time on earth, I will reflect on my life: my trials and my accomplishments. The most precious memories of my life will play out before my eyes. I will think of my family, and my memory of love will be of them.

Your attitude is the only thing in your life over which you have complete control.

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

My life is a book, a new chapter - a new day

Human beings were meant to love, and life was empty without that.

This is the bread: body, soul, exquisite tenderness. We are all we have. — Mary Jo Bang, from "Café Edgar," Apology for Want (University Press of New England, 1997)

Though working in the kitchen is soothing, I'm glad I don't have to cook all the time. Then it would be work.

Tragedy is simpler than uncertainty. Not easier, but simpler.

Un frate este cel mai bun aliat al unui om intr-o lume dificila, caci nimeni nu intelege la fel de bine fortele care ne formeaza pe viata.

Could his amnesia be a way of concealing that loss from himself because remembering would be unbearable? Mariah was an anchor in high winds, but she knew surprisingly little about his life.

I believe as I did as a child, that life has meaning, direction and value; that no suffering is lost; that each drop of blood and every tear counts; and that the secret of the world is to be found in St. John's "Veus Caritas est"—"God is love." —FRANÇOIS MAURIAC

Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.

Now we can see the real use of the Tarot pack. It is for living in and arranging our lives with. The cards are the exchange-symbols between inner and outer life…. Altogether the Tarots are a most valuable collection of psycho-physical currency convertible into either dimension. —Wm. B. Gray, Magical Ritual Methods

There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there.

Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life.

A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.

He'd assumed that you went to school because you had to learn things, starting off with the easy stuff and moving on to the bigger issues, and once you'd learned them that was it, the way ahead opened up and thereafter life was simple and straightforward. What a joke. The older he got, the more complicated and obscure everything became.

We are all bumbling along,side by side, week in, week out, our paths similar in some ways and different in others, all apparently running parallel. But parallel lines never meet.

Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all

Good luck. Maybe that's all it was. Maybe the whole of life depended not on how hard you tried, how determined you were, how sensible, how smart: maybe the whole shooting match depended on luck.

I live an immoral life. It is immoral because it is deadly futile.

God intended Earth. God intended the waters. God intended you and me. We were created in the image and the likeness of God; we are holograms, if you will. So the power, the presence, the energy is within you and me. The energy of God, as life, is within each of us.

Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love.