Quotes About Life

We all walk around with holes in our hearts. But we still walk around.

Magozzi was still smiling, which seemed absolutely inappropriate given the information he was about to deliver, but when had life ever been anything but a sketch in light and dark? Suffer the dark, go to the light whenever it's there.

I am convinced that, to a significant extent, life is what our relationships make it. …To learn how to be happy we must learn how to live well with others, and civility is a key to that (p. 6).

No matter how wonderful "The Other Side" seems, you cannot stay if it is not your time.

Achieving success, status, and wealth is not a measure of life. Nor is becoming a religious or spiritual paragon of things holy.

Life is consciousness expressing itself in form. All is alive. All is intelligent.

The safest plan, and the one most sure of success for the young man starting in life, is to select the vocation which is most congenial to his tastes.

We agreed that many a human life is sacrificed in sudden anger, because one or both the parties carry deadly weapons.

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

Ahora ya comprendes: el camino es un río con sed.

The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

The main thing in life is not to be afraid to be human.

On my last birthday I was ninety-three years old. That is not young, of course. In fact, it is older than ninety. But age is a relative matter. If you continue to work and to absorb the beauty in the world about you, you find that age does not necessarily mean getting old. At least, not in the ordinary sense. I feel many things more intensely than ever before, and for me life grows more fascinating.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe a moment that never was before and never will be again

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

I am who Iam, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves

No hay en toda ella un arbolito; la leña que quemamos es una yerba que tiene una cuarta de alto; las casas que vivimos, son todas cubiertas de paja [...] No le escrivo mas porque se me yelan los dedos".

La de la Revolución Mexicana es una historia en la que mucho se mata y mucho se muere, en la que la vida humana parece valer muy poco y la supervivencia es tan accidental y casual como la muerte. Avitia rescata las frases en un corrido terrible: 'Como saben que en México se mata y que a diario se muere por acá'.

I would like at this moment to announce that I will be retiring from this program in two weeks' time because of poor ratings. Since this show is the only thing I had going for me in my life, I've decided to kill myself. I'm going to blow my brains out right on this program a week from today. So tune in next Tuesday. That should give the public relations people a week to promote the show. You ought to get a hell of a rating out of that. 50 share, easy.

human life doesn't have truth. We're born screaming in doubt, and we die suffocating in doubt, and human life consists of continually convincing ourselves we're alive. One of the ways we know we're alive is we love each other...

A whole section of the family tree is pruned and primped and assessed as I politely sit there. Overall, I detect that the tree is fine: its leaves gently turning in the breeze of life. We have no scandal blight, no limb-wrenching storms of fate, no bad apples. I wonder what it is like when the Kennedys sit around for a disk check like this.