Quotes About Life

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead'. Maybe that was her problem.

The paradox of volcanoes was that they were symbols of destruction but also life. Once the lava slows and cools, it solidifies and then breaks down over time to become soil – rich, fertile soil.

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely. 'You're quoting Camus.' 'You got me.

Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small. But every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ. An irreversible variation occurs, which in turn leads to further variations . .

The only reason I am still in this life is because of you . . .' She lunged forward and kissed him.

And . . . and the thing is . . . the thing is . . . what we consider to be the most successful route for us to take, actually isn't. Because too often our view of success is about some external bullshit idea of achievement–an Olympic medal, the ideal husband, a good salary. And we have all these metrics that we try and reach. When really success isn't something you measure, and life isn't a race you can win. It's all . . . bollocks, actually . . .

It occurred to me that human beings didn't live beyond a hundred because they simply weren't up for it. Psychologically, I mean.

Cada vida está conformada por muchos millones de decisiones. Algunas importantes, otras banales. Cada vez que se elige una opción en lugar de otra, se produce un resultado diferente. Una variación irreversible, que a su vez conduce a otras variaciones.»

When things start to happen, other things start to happen. But sometimes it seems there is no explanation as to why the things are happening – why all the buses are coming along at once – why life's moments of luck and pain arrive in clusters. All we can do is observe the pattern, the rhythm, and then live it.

The only thing we need is to exist.

Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfect intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. 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.

you will be preserved from death.

It just shows you, doesn't it?' 'Shows me what?' 'Well, that you can choose choices but not outcomes. But I stand by what I said. It was a good choice. It just wasn't a desired outcome.

Well, I'm thinking about how life is so miraculous, none of it really deserves the title 'reality.' 

There is only the present. Just as every object on earth contains similar and interchanging atoms, so every fragment of time contains aspects of every other. Yes. It is clear. In those moments that burst alive the present last for ever, and I know there are many more presents to live. I understand. I understand you can be free. I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it. I am no longer drowning in my past, or fearful of my future. How can I be? The future is you.

Cerul nu incepe deasupra noastra. Nu exista un punct de inceput pentru cer. Noi traim in cer.

But you can be anything you want to be, Nora. Think of all that possibility. It's exiting" "Yes I suppose it is" "A whole life in front of you" "A whole life" "You could do anything, live anywhere

mean, 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

Viata se misca destul de repede. Daca nu te opresti sa privesti in jur din cand in cand, s-ar putea s-o ratezi.

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely. 'You're quoting Camus.' 'You

Between life and death there is a library,' she said. 'And within that library, the shelves go on for ever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be different if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?

No. Es por todo. Parece imposible vivir sin hacer daño la gente.

as Nietzsche put it: "The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either.

Her mind felt different here. She thought a lot in this life, but her thoughts were gentle.