Quotes About Life

Le storie, quelle importanti, quelle che cambiano i destini, sono fiumi impetuosi, difficili da imbrigliare. Tu gli metti un ostacolo e loro deviano, trovano un'altra via per fluire.

La vita non ci appartiene, ci attraversa. La

Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?

Noi ne-am n?scut în timp ce mamele noastre r?cneau de durere.

I have held the hands of countless dying people from all sorts of backgrounds, and I do not think I have met a single person who didn't share the exact same aspirations at the end of life: to make amends for mistakes, to be close to loved ones, to tell one's story to someone who will listen, and to die free of pain.

While the way we have come to live in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic might feel alien and unnatural, it is actually neither of those things. Plagues are a feature of the human experience. What happened in 2020 was not new to our species. It was just new to us.

His hours of sleep were no more fixed than those of his meals.

You have noticed that truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping.

It is the story of all life that is holy and is good to tell, and of us two-leggeds sharing in it with the four-leggeds and the wings of the air and all green things; for these are children of one mother and their father is one Spirit.

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

With this offhand example, Pichai gives voice to Silicon Valley's reigning assumption, which can be boiled down to this: Anything that can be automated should be automated. If it's possible to program a computer to do something a person can do, the computer should do it. Missing from this view is any consideration of the pleasures and responsibilities of everyday life.

To cede choices about the texture of our daily lives to a grand abstraction called progress is folly

It was Calzas who told me that your life is a road along which you leave many markers - points in time and places on the map. The ones in time you can only revisit in your mind, and they never change. The places can be revisited firsthand, but they're constantly changing. To keep a place the same, he said, you can no longer return to it - and then it becomes a point in time.

America is going to hell if we don't use her vast resources to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life. —MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity.

I guess that's all forever is...Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.

I guess that's all forever is. Just one big long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.

Seems to me if you talk about these things too much, the magic gets lost and pretty soon talk is all there is. Some things in life just... are.

There was death at its beginning as there would be death again at its end.

It was, she believed, a simple and unassailable fact of life that if a woman went to epic lengths to throw herself on the mercy of a man, the man would not, could not, refuse.

Co-creation meets a fundamental need, because 'we cannot bear to live our lives without some sort of content that we can see as constituting a meaning'.

He writes down what he most wants to do. Then he commits to doing it. It becomes a goal, then a project to plan, with actions to take. Then it becomes an adventure to live. The point is not to become a goal setter but to live an extraordinary life. Clear goals are the path to that kind of life.