Quotes About Life

The Eucharist is the sacrament of cosmic remembrance: it is indeed a restoration of love as the very life of the world.

We simply forget all this—so busy are we, so immersed in our daily preoccupations—and because we forget, we fail. And through this forgetfulness, failure, and sin, our life becomes "old" again—petty, dark and ultimately meaningless—a meaningless journey toward a meaningless end. We manage to forget even death and then, all of a sudden, in the midst of our "enjoying life" it comes to us: horrible, inescapable, senseless.

Whatever may be my activity in a given moment (whether I am composing, or whether I am making love . . .), I feel pleasure if there is an obstacle placed in my path but one not greater than my ability to overcome. If circumstances paralyze my energy, I suffer. From this point of view, pleasure and pain accompany every moment of our life, even if we try to disregard them.

Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.

How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn't matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it.

Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And underneath it all is the feeling that we both belong here, just as we are, right now.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

Memory is a mans real possession....in nothing else is he rich....in nothing else is he poor.

Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness it is after all, all the same the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

Life is so fragile that any parting can be eternal. We can never be sure that we will still have an opportunity to ask for forgiveness and be forgiven.

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.

This is not a full circle. It's Life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we all make to get on with it.

but the pathos and the gift of life is that we cannot know which will be our defining heartbreak, or our most victorious joy.

What was it the Chinese said…may you live in interesting times? He had a feeling that life with Mira was always going to be interesting. "This is why men lose their hair," he said.

It took years of keeping journals to trust a simple fact: like life in transit, the writing inside is often fragmented, messy.

Dünya halini sevmeyiniz, ne de dünyada var olan?, k?z?m. Tanr? a?k?, dünya sevgisiyle dolu olan ki?ide yoktur!

We are the sum total of our memories. Memories are the most precious things we have. Good or bad. That's what make us who we are. What would we be without them?

If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun

I once read that life should not be about the number of breaths you take, but the number of moments that take your breath away.

I don't want to spend whatever time I have left looking backwards. I want to look forwards. To new things. New places. New adventures. Otherwise I'm just living a life where a part of me is missing.

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