Quotes About Life

You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.

Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?

So many people came into your life, and they were such a part of the everyday that it was impossible to imagine them gone until, one day, they were.

instead I honestly feel lucky sometimes that I have gotten to feel and experience things that others have to struggle longer and harder to learn.

Courage is the answer. Because courage doesn't negate the problem, it exists within the problem. And when you realize the answer lies in taking the problem and living in spite of it, with full awareness of it, you feel a new option and a new sense of hope and life.

We humans need purpose in our lives. Look for happiness and it's hard to find. Find purpose and happiness is usually it's side kick, humming alongside.

She would revel in the pain and beauty of this service and in this film because she knew, more than anyone, that grief and joy are both points on the spectrum of love.

Deep reading is always about *connection*: connecting what we know to what we read, what we read to what we feel, what we feel to what we think, and how we think to how we live out our lives in a connected world.

He came to love, He came to warn Why do you weep on the day He's born? He draws the path I walk upon I died to live just for the Son Find love, find peace If you let Him increase

Sex is part of nature, I go with nature.

Get up every day and consider the stage you're on. Only you can decide whether it will be a tragedy, a comedy or a drama.

I watch, and wait. And mourn, for what I must now do to save Jessamine's life makes me unworthy of her love. Whether she lives or dies, I know I have lost her. I have lost her, forever.

If there is one thing I have learned, from loving Jessamine and even from the evil tasks you have made me do, it is that all forms of life are worthy of compassion.

Truth, terrible truth! It is like an ancient curse, from which there is no escape. The truth will drive one mad. Yet without it, how can one make sense of life's madness?

At least, when it comes, the black night of death will not frighten a creature still blind from being born. That is some comfort, is it not?

Plants make the air! Do you understand what that means? Our food, our air, our very lives come from the plants. How could they not be of divine origin, of divine intelligence? How can we deny that, in some essential way, they are no less than you or I?

What about chickens?

Ba-bump—ba-bump—ba-bump—ba-bump

La vie n'est pas toujours (ou même jamais) rose, Il est beaucoup plus probable qu'elle soit ombragée par les problèmes, les inquiétudes et les difficultés. C'est tout à fait normal, et personne ne devrait s'en alarmer

Commonly, in Japan, the crane is regarded as a symbol of peace. But for us, in the Sasaki family, it is the embodiment of Sadako's life, and it is filled with her wish and hope.

Which way are you thinking every day? If your thinking is all dark and negative, your days must be melancholy and suffocating and your life hopeless. Change your way of thinking right away. Direct your thinking toward the positive way of life, toward the plus energy; then your life will definitely go upward.

My dream is to die thinking "Wow, that was fun! I'm tired.

Mi sueño es morir diciendo "Ah, fue muy divertido, pero ya no puedo más".

So life is like fruit growing on the end of the branches..? -that's right.. -... it's like fruit.