Quotes About Life

It is true that philosophy is quite aware of the Buddhistic picture of life, of the sorrows and sicknesses which drag him down at times. That is why it makes equanimity a leading item of the inner work upon himself, why it becomes so necessary. But it is also true that moments, moods, and glimpses are also possible when there is uplift, and he can confirm for himself that the human link with the higher power is a very real thing.

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

As a rule the prisoners of the inquisition ask for death as a boon and wherever possible commit suicide; for torture made of every one a hopeless cripple unfit for either work or enjoyment of life, even though he might be released

Wherever one went the world was blooming. And yet despair gave birth to poetry.

I Hear that the Axe has Flowered I hear that the axe has flowered, I hear that the place can't be named, I hear that the bread which looks at him heals the hanged man, the bread baked for him by his wife, I hear that they call life our only refuge.

he calls out play death more sweetly Death is a master from Deutschland he calls scrape those fiddles more darkly then as smoke you'll rise in the air then you'll have a grave in the clouds there you'll lie at ease

Encréspate, ola! ¡Pez, atrévete a salir! Donde hay agua se puede vivir otra vez, otra vez invocar al mundo al cantar a coro con la muerte, otra vez gritar desde el desfiladero: mirad, estamos al abrigo, mirad, la tierra era nuestra, mirad, ¡cómo cortamos el camino a la estrella!

Von der sinkenden Walstirn les ich dich ab – du erkennst mich, der Himmel stürzt sich in die Harpune, sechsbeinig hockt unser Stern im Schaum, langsam hißt einer, der's sieht, den Trosthappen: das balzende Nichts.

How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods

The land of familiarity belongs to the dead

She told me she would make it to 115. And she kept her word.

To blithely say "it could have happened" that a life-permitting, life-producing, and life-sustaining universe is the product of chance is naive. It fails to take seriously all that is required to get from "zero" to a single-celled organism to Homo sapiens.

Behavioral scientists are not likely to agree, because such a performance can't be repeated with the true scientific method, under laboratory conditions. But the laboratory is a very limited place to learn anything but rudimentary facts about life and living.

Do you think there's intelligent life in space?' He grunted. 'Mum always says they'll be just like us. But I'd hate it if they were just like us.

It's not like there's a vote on what's real," said Judith. "It don't matter what either of you believe, the world just gets on with it.

You cannot just replace one life with another. Each is unique, precious.

This shitty world sometimes produces a rose The scent of it lingers and then it just goes

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

We all tend to look for life horizontally when the reality is that we will only ever find life vertically.

Honestly facing your lack of sovereignty over your own life produces either anxiety or relief. Anxiety is God-forgetting. It is the result of thinking that is life is on your shoulders, that it is your job to figure it all out and keep things in order.

Yes, your life is messy and hard, but that's not a failure of the plan; it is the plan. It's God working to complete what he's begun in you.

maturity is about how you live your life. It is possible to be theologically astute and be very immature. It is possible to be biblically literate and be in need of significant spiritual growth.