Quotes About Life

The temptation to hide in his job, to allow all his thoughts and emotions to become absorbed in the details of his career was hard to resist. It felt like virtue and it was quite possible to be completely self-righteous about it. But it was, he knew, only cowardice in disguise. If you weren't willing to face your life—all your life, including the rough parts—then you weren't truly living. You were just making a living. He

Love is rare enough in this life, that when you come acrost it you'd best grab ahold, and hang on for dear life.

Accepting the world's realities, even when you didn't understand them, was a basic necessity of existence in Ozark life.

The meaning of life is life itself. Life fighting to stay alive in a cold, dark universe.

her, and the sweetness, the passion, exploded inside her a hundred times more brilliant than before as if she'd been living life in two dimensions, two black-and-white dimensions, and

Dark books say to us, "This isn't about you. You are in fact alive and safe." Yes, there's an implicit and unavoidable warning, an edge of danger; these things happen, the books say. And yet, as bad as it gets inside this book, you, the reader, are securely outside. If

Every woman should have a youth she's content to leave behind and a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to telling it in her old age

you were thirty, you were a failure," she told the audience. "And now a lot of young women think that if they aren't seriously successful before thirty, they're a failure. So I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after thirty—and forty, and fifty, and sixty, and seventy-seven! Believe me, life is one long surprise. And you can't plan it, but you can prepare.

love might be forever but life was not.

Before was preparation: leaving home, going to college, launching a career, getting married, having a child, realizing that love might be forever but life was not. After was living with the choices I'd made: that man, that child, that profession, that city, that self.

One day the Barbie without a head convinced Donny and Marie to put pink and blue Life pegs through the holes in their hands. The Barbies pretended the pegs were hits of acid and got the Osmonds to think they could fly.

A twelfth-century samurai's main weapon was his bow, but his sword offered a last line of defense if he ran out of arrows or was knocked off his horse. Yet even as a backup weapon the sword carried a symbolic weight that the bow did not. Weapons like bows and spears were also used for hunting. The sword had a singular purpose: to end human life" (Turner & Hinds, 2016, p. 23).

Ephemerals: That's what Hub called them; flowers that bloomed and died in a matter of weeks, before the trees leafed out and shaded them. She liked the way the word sounded in her head. I am an ephemeral. It made her feel like something passing and precious.

Farmecul, pitorescul, partea interesant? a vieÈ›ii unui om cu temperament puternic, zbuciumat È™i, în acelaÈ™i timp, aventuros nu st? totdeauna în faptele izbitoare ale acestei vieÈ›i. FrumuseÈ›ea trebuie s-o cauÈ›i - de cele mai multe ori - în am?nunte.

As I am, I parrot no one; I don't venture to fly to heights at which one needs wings that I don't have. But I appreciate any crumb of knowledge that affects my feelings, which, for their part, are never at rest. I am an inferno of desires. The earth and life are never too great for my ability to feel them.

Nu sunt obi?nuit s? privesc via?a ca pe o iesle ?i o cresc?torie

Angel sinirlenerek sordu : - Mahvolmaktan ne kastediyorsun? - Kaderi olan hayattan ba?ka bir hayat? kendine zorlayan adama mahvolmu? diyorum. Angel ba??n? sallad? : -Mahvolmu? adam buna m? derler? Ya kaderi olan hayattan ba?ka bir hayat? kendine zorlamayan adama ne dersin?

Bir güçlük daha var: insan sevdiÄŸi zaman, yaln?z yaÅŸamaz. Hatta art?k sevilmek istemediÄŸi zaman bile - ki, benim için bugün durum budur- yaln?z yaÅŸamaz. Bu, hiç olmazsa, hat?ralarla yaÅŸamaktan vazgeçmeyen içliler için doÄŸrudur, çünkü hal mevcut olmay?nca hat?ra olamaz. Ölmeyi istememiz beyhudedir.

ÎnvinÈ™i sunt toÈ›i oamenii care se g?sesc la sfârÈ™itul, sau spre sfârÈ™itul vieÈ›ii lor în dezacord sentimental cu cei mai buni dintre semenii lor.

C'était un mari, on ne se posait pas toutes ces questions. On se mariait, on vivait ensemble, parfois on riait, d'autres fois on ne riait pas, mais on ne souffrait pas pour autant.

Pankaj Mishra

The two pigeons killed had just given birth. And now the baby pigeon doesn't know who he is. He is going through an identity crisis.

All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others lives for it.

Nothing is permanent. This is the central teaching of the Buddha. Not a career, not an institution, not a wife, not a tree ... All is change; change is the only truth.