Quotes About Life

Everything changes and nothing changes.

can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. Sylvia Plath 'Between life and death there is a library,' she said.

But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.

Thoreau had written in Walden, 'in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

There are patterns to life... Rhythms. It is so easy, while trapped in just the one life, to imagine that times of sadness or tragedy or failure or fear are a result of that particular existence, That is is a by-product of living a certain way, rather than simply living.

I was not told to provide this document of human life. That was not in my brief. Yet I feel obliged to do so to explain some remarkable features of human existence. I hope you will thereby understand why I chose to do what, by now, some of you must know I did.

Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.

The many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics suggests there are an infinite number of divergent parallel universes. Every moment of your life you enter a new universe. With every decision you make.

it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can't have one without the other.

We have handed over our instincts to the hands of a clock. Increasingly, we serve time rather than time serving us. We fret about time. We wonder where time has gone. We are obsessed with time.

She imagined that when she eventually arrived at her deathbed, she would feel more regret about her unborn children than her unwritten books.

Davvero potrei continuare a navigare per sempre attraverso la vita sentendomi così? Una nave alla fine si deve fermare. Deve raggiungere un porto, un riparo, una destinazione, nota o ignota. Deve arrivare da qualche parte e fermarsi lì, altrimenti qual è lo scopo di una nave?

A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it.

saya rasa kehidupan selalu menyediakan alasan agar kita tidak mati, seandainya kita memasang telinga baik-baik. Alasan-alasan itu bisa berasal dari masa lalu - mungkin orang-orang yang membesarkan kita, sahabat-sahabat, atau para mantan kekasih - atau dari masa depan - ada kemungkinan-kemungkinan yang kita matikan.

Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.' She didn't correct his knowledge of diamonds. She didn't tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson.

Life is not a ladder to climb a puzzle to solve a key to find a destination to reach a problem to fix

If you truly feel part of a bigger picture, if you can see yourself in other people and nature, if this you becomes something bigger than the individual you, then you never truly depart the world when you die. You exist as long as life exists. Because the life you feel inside you is part of the same life force that exists in every living thing.

Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live

LIFE IS HARD. It may be beautiful and wonderful but it is also hard. The way people seem to cope is by not thinking about it too much. But some people are not going to be able to do that.

Death is the opposite of possibility.

We don't have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don't have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter

We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence. We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility. So let's be kind to the people in our own existence.

After the wine a realisation hit her with total clarity. She wasn't made for this life. Every move had been a mistake, every decision a disaster, every day a retreat from who she'd imagined she'd be. [...] Happy. Loved. Nothing.

La única manera de aprender es vivir.