Quotes About Life

If you meet life squarely, you are likely to make mistakes, do things you wish you hadn't, say things you wish you could retract or phrase more felicitously, and, in short, fumble your way along. Those "mature" people whose lives are even without a single sour note or a single mistake, who never fumble, manage only at the cost of original thought and original action. They do without the successes as well as the failures.

The rest of our weekend sleeping arrangements, hand-done work, hand-prepared food was simple enough to please Thoreau, who I am convinced was a nice fellow who confused rustic vacations with life.

life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Arabia had not changed greatly since medieval times. For the overwhelming majority of people in Najd, al-Hasa and Hijaz, life was connected chiefly with two kinds of economic activity – irrigated farming in the oases and nomadic animal husbandry.

I tell myself and the officers I train the LANFWM principle, which is, Life Ain't No Fucking Western Movie.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

And this that we call life, it is no more than the opening and closing of a eye a crevice in the unborn through which there shone a beam of light. Perhaps we are only here to say, live in the mercy of the enkindles immensity.

Every flower and insect, every bird, and all the creatures that live upon the land and swim within the rivers and seas, are part of the Tree of Life. You are connected to the whole of life. Whatever happens to the myriad forms of life in the world around you, has a direct affect on you.

Look, for once the face of the earth, look, one life in every seed self sacrificed for us, look the sun, shines in us, look the river, flow through us, look the flowers, bloom in our bodies, every fiber and cell of the substances of our bodies vibrating from the birds songs

Mountains fall and seas divide and impossible things may seem but where there's despair there is and faith and where there's sadness the consolation is near. Every breath is a chance to reborn, but to be reborn you have to die before dying.

To live a life that matters, make the house, where Gods may dwell, there, in the temple of the soul we will not die an unlived life. we will not live in fear of falling there, the dark stars waiting with their light to draw the veil from truth.

Treasures come in so many ways: The sun that lights the cloudy days, a rose that blooms within an hour. a baby that staring with a wandering gaze, a dolphin's dance on ocean waves, a sky full of snowflakes of rarest form, a beautiful white and peaceful dove.

We can't communicate the incommuunicable, we can't explain the inconceivable, life's fullness forever lies in wait about each one of us, and the lonely emptiness of existence is permanent, but a star deep in our heart lead us the way home.

We need a sense of the unity of life and of humans for the sake of human welfare and for the survival of the planet. We need a sense of unity with the cosmos so that we can connect with Reality. But we also need a sense of individuality, for the sake of our own dignity and independence and of the loving care for others. We need it to appreciate each natural form, each animal and plant, each human person in their uniqueness.

if, like Charles Silberman, we think school "should prepare people not just to earn a living but to live a life—a creative, humane, and sensitive life,"22 then children's attitudes toward learning are at least as important as how well they perform at any given task.

La mayoría de las mujeres forjan sueños equivocados del amor; su imaginación las lleva a célicas visiones, perjudiciales, en razón de lo exagerado. Es así, como, para muchas mujeres la vida se divide en dos mundos: el que imaginaron y el que viven.

The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment ... both of individuals and of humanity.

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.

Life in general has no meaning. Whatever meaning life has must be assigned to it by the individual.

He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.