Quotes About Life

To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

The confessional writer will treat her story like a wailing wall. She kneels, and her story spills out, messy, improper. It isn't a protest or even graffiti, but her story is an offering of things that she overlooked or notices that others have overlooked. She is in danger of exposure but she remembers when she lived in hiding and that was worse. She cannot turn back now because this is how life has spun out of her, part vexing passage and part prayer.

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

Nancy White, a Black inner-city resident, explores the connection between experience and beliefs: Now, I understand all these things from living. But you can't lay up on these flowery beds of ease and think that you are running your life, too.

You can't read all the time.

Husbands come and go, children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

While we may believe the circumstances of our lives have led us to think in a certain way, it is more accurate to say that the way we think is affecting the circumstances of our lives.

Women are afraid of the intensity of feeling that may surface as their eyes are opened to the wider reality of a woman's life. A woman's intensity makes everyone uncomfortable, including herself. We were taught to be nice, not angry, even when our own lives and sanity are at stake.

I have learned to trust myself and so have the women with whom I sit in circle. We no longer choose to expend our precious life energy scrutinizing every facet of our beings to figure out what is wrong with us. Instead, we celebrate ourselves as gifted and powerful children of life.

Life is not a straight line, she said. And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.

I live life to the brim," she said. "And a little over the top, I'd say," said Grandfather.

there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.

What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.

Things happen, Jacob," I heard Sarah say. "The rope broke. I could have died." "Don't, Sarah," said Papa. "You could have lost me, Jacob," said Sarah. "And that's the way life is. Something happens . . . one little moment in time. If you're lucky, you have a chance to make things better. You have that chance here. Don't let it pass.

All the time you fighting, you think only of how to survive. All the time you survive, you wonder why you don't die. But now my life can be something different. Now, in America, I don't have to fight. I don't have to survive. I can chose a new thing: to live.

Four other babies were born between me and my brother. There are no notches for them.

You show you care, you die. You show you fear, you die. You show nothing, maybe you live.

Above all, he was posing the question that has vexed philosophers for centuries: Knowing that we are going to die, how are we to live?

Jesus' tomb wasn't His grave, but our door.

Drama is to life what ships are to the sea. A means to traverse it. To plumb its depths, breadth and beauty.

I may long for certainty, but I have to live with doing the best I can.

Woolly as it is, the best advice is perhaps to allow yourself broad life experience and exposure to the human condition in all its beauty and horror. Do your best, but even then you will make mistakes.

Ya?am?n oldu?u yerde umut vard?r.