Quotes About Life

Most religions are concerned about what happens when you die, about going somewhere better than here as a reward for faithful service or whatever you want to call it. Paganism teaches that being here is the reward, and that we need to make the most of it and leave the world a better place.

Sartre wrote after describing his epiphany that his life was nothing but a play, and he an actor in it

And just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it.

Only by practicing stillness aggressively, pushing all the clamor and busyness of life aside, can a man truly experience God. In the still and quiet, discernment is learned so that in the heart of the battle it can be practiced. If a man can't practice it when things are still, there is no way he will be able to do so when the arrows are flying.

On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

In all, it is important to recognize the complexity and perhaps even unavoidable contradictions that reside within human morality. Its multiple sources and layers can never be applied consistently in all situations, given the messiness and unpredictability of human social life.

Finding a satisfactory balance between cooperation and competition is the basic challenge of a complex social life.

It's as absurd to expect a life to have meaning, in contrast to the vastness of the Universe, as it is absurd to take off your shoe and hang it from a tree, but both are wonderful in their way—for I assure you, if you could see that tree, you'd think it wonderful, you'd approve, you'd think that in a wacko way something had been done, something worth doing.

I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided.

each one of us will face a moment when eternity whispers into our hearts, This is your time.

Note to creationists: life and evolution are as inseparable as Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.)

This doesn't necessarily mean that ET will use DNA as its genetic material, or rely on the same 20 amino acids that Earth life does. Other carbon molecules could conceivably get the relevant jobs done, and it might actually be quite surprising if two different life systems came up with the exact same solutions

We are like plants which – whether we like to admit it to ourselves or not, must with our roots rise out of the earth in order to bloom in the ether and to bear fruit.

Death opens up the question of Being ... It is the shrine of Nothing and the shelter of Being.

Sports don't define us it is not what we live for.

We live individual lives with the consciousness of death and awareness of the past. But the most important part of that sentence is the individual part. Let yourself be humbled by the experiences people have been having for thousands of years. And speak of it.

In early February, an Obama administration lawyer friendly with Sally Yates remarked with some relish and considerable accuracy: "It certainly is an odd circumstance if you live your life without regard for being elected and then get elected—and quite an opportunity for your enemies.

But the prospect of her husband's actually becoming president was, for Melania, a horrifying one. She believed it would destroy her carefully sheltered life—one sheltered, not inconsiderably, from the extended Trump family—which was almost entirely focused on her young son.

Media is personal. It is a series of blood scores. The media in its often collective mind decides who is going to rise and who is going to fall, who lives and who dies.

The two prosecutors also delved into the president's personal life. How often did he cheat on his wife? With whom? How were trysts arranged? What were the president's sexual interests?

It certainly is an odd circumstance if you live your life without regard for being elected and then get elected—and quite an opportunity for your enemies.

The tale of someone's life begins before they are born.

The lake district's rain was the price you paid to live amongst such beauty.

The truth that sets us free is this: Jesus is the one and only way to everlasting life.