Quotes About Life

Here is what life is all about. At its center is a God of awesome glory—glorious in power, wisdom, faithfulness, love, and grace. Here is what everyone needs—rescue by this glory. Here is what everyone was created for—to live for this glory. Here is grace—that God would choose to splash his eternal glory down on inglorious, unthankful, rebellious, and self-oriented people such as us.

Your life is not good because it is easy or predictable, but because the I Am has invaded your existence by his grace.

Suffering, sadness, and death are not yet no more. It is hard to live in the middle, but that is exactly where we live. We live in a world that is still sadly and terribly broken.

The physical world is full of many glories, but the pursuit of these glories must not rule my heart because they have no ability whatsoever to offer me the life that I so desperately need.

Biblical literacy and theological expertise are not, therefore, the end of the Word but a God-ordained means to an end, and the end is a radically transformed life because the worship at the center of that life has been reclaimed.

The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any more than a study of silicon, copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program.

Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

Ik leef niet, ik zit hier en kijk, terwijl ik schrijf zie ik, ontdek ik wat ik tevoren niet wist, ik vind stukjes van een puzzel waaraan ik misschien mijn hele leven zal werken, nooit komt het legwerk klaar want het verleden wisselt voortdurend van gedaante volgens het heden (dat niets anders is dan de kop van dit verleden) en de toekomst (die morgen de kop van dit verleden zal zijn).

Als je Proust gelezen hebt, is je leven veranderd.

Did there not sound to us from another region a voice of unearthly strength, yet unspeakably mild and consoling: "In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer,—I have overcome the world!" Who thus speaks, is the Will to life who overcame the world by overcoming himself ;—who thus speaks, that art thou, — — so soon as thou wilt.

In the beginning, all there was was the divine Mother. All things in the beginning are female.

Decisions about relationships, like all other decisions in life, should be based on their consequences for experiences of pleasure and purpose over time, and not by narratives surrounding them.

So experiences of pleasure and purpose are all that matter in the end. Hedonism is the school of thought that holds that pleasure is the only thing that matters in the end. By adding sentiments of purpose to pleasure, I define my position as sentimental hedonism. I am a sentimental hedonist and I think that, deep down, we all are.

Day to day, moment to moment, you feel sentiments of pleasure, purpose, pain, and pointlessness.

My research and my experiences tell me that life is less about trading off happiness now for happiness later (and vice versa) and more about trading off pleasure and purpose at different rates at different times.

In general, you should not give up too much happiness for too long (clinging to the mistaken belief that you will be able to recoup the loss at some point later on in life). Don't put off until tomorrow happiness that can be experienced today.

I'll show that the key to happiness is finding pleasure and purpose in everyday life.

Purpose is a simpler construct than pleasure because it's largely nonaroused, so either it's good (purposeful) or bad (pointless).

Everybody, ultimately, is trying to reach a harmony with the other part of the life force. And in trying to figure out what life is all about, we ultimately come down to expressions of compassion and love, helping the rest of the life force, caring about others without any conditions or expectations, without expecting to get anything in return. This is expressed in every religion, by every prophet." - George Lucas

Now the alternative to despair is courage. And human life can be viewed as a continuous struggle between these two options. Courage is the capacity to affirm one's life in spite of the elements which threaten it. The fact that courage usually predominates over despair in itself tells us something important about life. It tells you that the forces that affirm life are stronger than those that negate it.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

God prevented Adam & Even from ETERNAL SINFULNESS by giving them the gift of death, the ability to exit this life & arrive safely in the wondrous life to come. Death, though it would appear to be man's greatest enemy, would in the end, prove to be his greatest friend. Only through can we go to God.

I don't believe that ghosts are "spirits of the dead" because I don't believe in death. In the multiverse, once you're possible, you exist. And once you exist, you exist forever one way or another. Besides, death is the absence of life, and the ghosts I've met are very much alive. What we call ghosts are lifeforms just as you and I are.