Quotes About Life

Deep in their roots,' Roethke had said, 'all flowers keep the light.

He had laughed today; he had been happy. He didn't know why he had not counted more sunny hours in his life, but he hadn't. God had clearly asked him to, but he was intent on having his own nature, and his own nature could be inward, even melancholy. He didn't like it, but here it was.

Lord, he prayed, thank You for Your continued grace. Help me fulfill Your plan for my life; give me a heart to hear Your voice. . . . And please, if You would do the same for Dooley . .

Fishin' promotes patience, Madelaine! Patience! A boy has t' learn he can't always have what he wants, when he wants it. Look at th' state of th' world. Most of th' troubles t'day come from havin' no patience. An' take perseverance, that's a absolute requirement if a boy's gon' make anything of hisself.

We are not citizens of this world trying to make our way to heaven; we are citizens of heaven trying to make our way through this world. The Lindisfarne, via The Anglican Digest

All your circumstances are in the hand of God," Chambers wrote, "so never think it strange concerning the circumstances you're in.

He'd been amped for a long time; actually, everybody he knew was amped. He would like to spend the rest of his life de-amping.

think th' whole point of life is to know God, and be able to accept the way things turn out.

It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person.

The sin life in us must be transformed into the spiritual life." "How?" "Through sacrifice and obedience.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

Sorrow and joy, he thought, so inextricably entwined that he could scarcely tell where one left off and the other began.

Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart," he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files. "Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness...and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished...

A journey need not be long, in terms of time, to turn everything upside down. A day or two in a strange place can change your life

But then, What is not vain, by God, in lives of men? All is in vain! We play at blind man's buff Until hard edges break into out path. Man life's is error. Where, then, is relief? In shedding tears or wrestling down my grief?

Ancient Tragedy is loss of life, modern Tragedy is loss of purpose.

Perfume is my memory, the chronicle of my life. —DB

Few conversations, at any time of life, are more stimulating, more spontaneous and more genuinely original than those long ridiculous talks we all have, when we are very young, late at night about the meaning of life.

To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work hanging in fine museums or the praise of critics. To be an artist it is necessary to live with our eyes wide open, to breath in the colors of mountain and sky, to know the sound of leaves rustling, the smell of snow, the texture of bark. To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing, to cry freely, to collect experience and shape it into forms that others can share.

There are a lot of things we don't have in life, but time is not one of them. Time is all we have. One lifetime under this name, to produce a body of work that says, "This is how I saw the world." Your work is worthy of whatever time it takes.

The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than hands and feet, of which in truth she is but the extension. The emotional appeal of nature is tremendous, sometimes almost more than one can bear.

When something unfortunate happens, they tend to respond with: "To me? It's happening to me?" They don't believe they are deserving of bad luck. One of the lessons they're learning is that "life" happens to everyone.