Quotes About Life

He carried the deep, intuitive understanding of the power of food to connect people, knew that food was not simply a device for entertaining or filling our bodies and pleasing our senses but rather that it served as a direct channel to the greater pleasures of being alive, and that it could be so only when that food was shared with friends and lovers and family.

If you have a passion for food then it's not only your life and your avocation but it's also your vocation and maybe that's the lunacy.

Living matter seems to be playing an entirely different game than non-living matter, even though they are both made from the same stuff. Why is living matter different from non-living matter? Is it simply cheating, somehow violating the physical laws that we've come to understand govern non-living matter? Pattee argues that living matter is distinguished from non-living matter by its ability to replicate and to evolve over the course of time. So what does it take to replicate and evolve?

The fact is, life's successes and failures are sporadic, and their causes are difficult to determine. Hard work and luck are behind most successes, though it is hard to say, for any given success, how much of each there has been.

Or really, the question is: Is there a difference between when life begins and when life as a human begins?

Liberal education intertwines the philosophical and rhetorical so that we learn how to learn, so that we continue both inquiry and cultural participation throughout our lives because learning has become part of who we are.

The real mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, it is a reality to be experienced. —J. J. Van der Leeuw

if your thoughts are clear and in harmony with your mind and the truth of your surroundings, your life can be filled with all the richness the Universe has to offer.

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.

on death pools] This attitude is an unwholesome mix of frivolity and obsession—toying with death even while fixating upon it.

Is the church really demonstrating the new life in Christ if there is no discipline, if there is no fencing in of the Lord's table, no demand for purity of life?

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

You know, we should all be so lucky as to lie down in the grass in the cool shade, surrounded by people who love us, when it's the end of our lives.

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

The blood: There's nothing like it, the sense of elation, the power. To think the life of a man is pouring into you. Think of communion, for God's sake. The hunger for blood takes people there.

Religion will tell you that some people have 'grace' while economics will probably attribute it to some forces of demand and supply. The reality is that it is possible that everyone lives a life of comfort but there are 2 reasons why this will never be the reality; Firstly, humans are typically greedy and secondly, because not everyone will be committed to the process of being successful.

Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer.

We humans are nothing more than the sum of our memories.

Nicholas: One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself. Josh: DNA.

I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.

But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.

I never traded my humanity for my long life, Doctor. I've always remembered my roots....You worked so hard to be like your Elder master that you've forgotten what it is like to feel human - to be human. And we humans...have the capacity to feel another creature's pain. It is what lifted humani above the Elders, it is what made them great.

It is not easy to watch the world change around you. To see an entire way of life change and change and change again. It isn't easy to watch friends grown old and die, nor is it easy to be constantly moving on from place to place before people begin to wonder why you never age.

Why would anyone want to feel pain or fear?" Josh wondered aloud, both intrigued and repelled by the very idea. It seemed somehow wrong. "So they can feel alive," Scatty said.