Quotes About Life

Life is made of these moments - of one's physical being moving through time and space - and we string them together into a story, and that story becomes our life.

mortal man. He saw a being

But what good is living if the life you lead is brittle and dead?

What if instead of a story told in consecutive order, life is a cacophony of moments we never leave. What if the most traumatic or the most beautiful experiences we have trap us in a kind of feedback loop, where at least some part of our minds remain obsessed, even as our bodies move on.

This is the lesson we had learned: when you don't want to face the consequences of your actions, you focus on the soap opera of public life, with its heroes and villains, its clear narratives.

What if, instead of a story told in consecutive order, life is a cacophony of moments we never leave? What if the most traumatic or most beautiful experiences we have trap us in a kind of feedback loop, where at least some part of our minds remains obsessed even as our bodies move on?

Life is a series of decisions and reactions. It is the things you do and the things that are done to you. And then it's over.

Here's something else Einstein said: "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Everyone has their path. The choices they've made. How any two people end up in the same place at the same time is a mystery. You

It is the job of the human brain to assemble all the input of our world--sights, sounds, smells--into coherent narrative. This is what memory is, a carefully calibrated story that we make up about our past. But what happens when those details crumble? Hailstones on a tin roof....What happens when your life can't be translated into a linear narrative?

Because what if instead of a story told in consecutive order, life is a cacophony of moments we never leave? What if the most traumatic or the most beautiful experiences we have trap us in a kind of feedback loop, where at least some part of our minds remains obsessed, even as our bodies move on? A

The lives we live, he thinks, are filled with holes.

He told me to tell you that it's hard to be useful and sad.

The only thing that can change who we are is life.

Without hope, there's no growth. Without growth, there is no life.

Active addiction is a kind of hell. It is like being a hungry ghost, wandering through life in constant craving and suffering. Refuge Recovery, the Buddhist-inspired approach to treating addiction, offers a plan to end the suffering of addiction.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

They all walk their own paths, live their own lives. A journey without farewells, a beginning without end. It is a little lonely, but that's how it is

Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts!

If your life was lonely, then your death is, too. You will dig your own grave and die as you lived.

John Locke said that it is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth. It is easy to point out people's faults. They are always so obvious. But this will never change the person. Better to put the truth in their hands. By the power of truth a life will change.

Only your doubt and disbelief can interrupt the flow of His blessings. Your attitude, your confessions, and your thoughts all play a vital part in opening and closing the floodgates of His blessing on your life.

Farming is a poor way to make a living, at least around here, because you have to go into factory farming to make it pay. It is the best hobby there is—only 'hobby' is too little a word. The best way of life. Not just because you learn forty different trades, and not just because you follow the seasons, but because you get to spend your whole life producing a single work of art. That is, the farm itself.