Quotes About Life

In a way, I realized, every woman risked her life when bringing a child into the world. Labor and delivery were serious business, and not for the faint of heart. Yet down through the centuries women took that risk, willing to trade life for life.

And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.

De verdad le quedan dudas todavía? —le pregunté—. ¿A pesar de tener noventa años? —Hay ciertas cosas de las que nunca podemos estar seguros —aseveró—, aunque vivamos cien años. Eso demuestra que somos humanos.

Life is pure farce from beginning to end, with a little black comedy thrown in for shade. If it was anything else, mankind would have stuck his collective head in the gas oyen years ago. No one could tolerate seventy years of tragedy. When I die - probably of cancer - Jane has prornised to put on my tombstone: "Here lies Anne Cattrell who laughed her way through it. The joke was on her but at least she knew it." (The Ice House)

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.' Eric Hoffer

It is up to each of us to sing as we feel moved by the overall song of life.

Death is not an ending. It is a transformation. Death is the threshold of this life. Beyond it is something else, some mystery.

you cannot remain on your meditation cushion forever. You must go out and explore life as well.

To be a Taoist, one need not engage in fanatical denial of any part of life, nor does one need to leave family and career in order to gain a foothold on the path. One need only balance the various parts of one's personality and provide them with a strong focus.

There is an underbelly of terror to all life. It is suffering, it is hurt. Deep within all of us are intense fears that have left few of us whole. Life's terrors haunt us, attack us, leave ugly cuts. To buffer ourselves, we dwell on beauty, we collect things, we fall in love, we desperately try to make something lasting in our lives. We take beauty as the only worthwhile thing in this existence, but it cannot veil cursing, violence, randomness, and injustice.

Life is but one dream flowing into another.

do not be put off by the illusory nature of life. Use it. Everything in this life can be an advantage to the wise.

it is only depth of character that determines the profundity with which we face life. We can either add to our character each day, or we can fritter away our energies in distractions.

Whether our lives are magnificent or wretched depends upon our ordering of daily details. We must organize the details into a composition that pleases

Duty is inevitable, but we need not saddle ourselves with extra responsibilities. Keep life simple. Give up as much as possible.

Your life is a creation that dies when you die. Release

It is only the depth of character that determines the profundity with which we face life. We can either add to our character each day or we can fritter away our energies in distractions. Those who learn how to accumulate character each day achieve a depth that cannot be successfully opposed.

Keep life simple… turn toward the divine. It satisfies, it brings knowledge, and it brings joy.

Every day passes whether you participate or not.

Whatever comes to you, you must engage it somehow. You receive it, you may alter the circumstance and let it go, you may interject something of your own into it, or you may knowingly let it pass. Whatever you do, there is no need to be apathetic toward life. Instead, full participation in all things is the surest way to happiness, vitality, success, and a deep knowledge of Tao.

Life is a constant series of opportunities. If we don't reach out for things, if we don't take advantage of what comes our way, then we cannot be in harmony with the essential nature of life.

Each day your life grows a day shorter. Make every move count.

Only through lighting a living fire within ourselves can we dance quickly and spontaneously enough to meet the rhythm of life.

The primary point of this existence is to live, and all living things move and grow. Therefore meditation should be integrated with the flow of life. It should not dominate above all else.