Quotes About Life

But while I remained ignorant of there never having been such a tiling as human self-effort or human independence, I had not realized that all my own efforts to live a victorious life were really Satan expressing himself as me.

The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.

He would say only slightly facetiously that the main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.

The dead will be resurrected.

Immortality—was electric-light slime reaching for the stars, and she stood poised on the brink, balanced on the razor-edge between life and death, the flickering and the eternal, the human and the immortal, sanity and the holy madness that was realer than sanity, more cogent, a path to oneness with the timeless infinite that could be hers if she had the courage to cast off her moorings to the shores of self and trust her fate to that all-forgiving sea.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values.

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

Anyway, who in their right mind would ever say a person was supposed to be happy? In your life happiness is either cut to your length or isn't.

My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere.

In the beat of a heart, the suck of a breath, you are the universe.

I return to the rhythm of water, to the dark song I was in my mother's belly.

In every blade of grass rises the strength of the sun.

I am counted as one among stars. I am sworn to life. I am bound to death.

U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it is still with us.

As nothing is certain or permanent in the world, nothing either real or unreal, the secret of wisdom is detachment without withdrawal. All goals and aims may cheat us, but if we run away from them we shall find ourselves bumping into them.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

The generous and bold have the best lives.

Will the future bring your wisdom to me? Or will darkness rule the kingdom for all eternity? You will live in my heart… I will still remember even though we are apart. I will feel you there for me As I walk the road of life You help me fight for what is right I will honour thy name

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that Fate and character are the same conception.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.