Quotes About Life

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Be very suspicious if somebody says they want to make a movie of your life story.

life is like a box of chocolates. You never know which kind you're gonna get.

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know which kind yo're gonna get

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get next.

But let me tell you this: sometimes at night, when I look up at the stars, an see the whole sky jus laid out there, don't you think I ain't rememberin it all. I still got dreams like anybody else, an ever so often, I am thinkin about how things might of been. An then, all of a sudden, I'm forty, fifty, sixty years ole, you know?

All my life, I ain't understand shit about what was going on. A thing just happen, then something else happen, then something else, an so on, and half the time nothing making any sense. But Dan say it is all part of a scheme of some sort, and the best way we can get along is figure out how we fit into the scheme, and then try to stick to our place. Somehow knowing this, things get a good bit clearer for me.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.

We live longer but less precisely and in shorter sentences.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still

Dying - you can't do that to a cat.

The first two chapters appear to be a record of creation, but this is superficial. The underlying thought is focused on life. These two chapters are a record of life. They are too simple and too brief to be an adequate account of creation. Genesis 1 and 2 were not intended by God to be a record of creation, but a revelation of life.

Today the formation of God's people into an army is a matter of coordination, which is based on three matters: life, maturity, and confirmation. These three matters must be fulfilled in order for God's people to be properly formed, which is to be properly coordinated. (CWWL, 1960, vol. 1, "Synopsis of Numbers," p. 71)

Christ is the bread of life (John 6:35). Whatever we take into us as food will be assimilated into our being. This is very meaningful and significant. God is life to us in the form of food. We need to receive Him by eating Him. Once God enters into us, He becomes the flow of life within us. For proper eating we need food and drink. John 6 covers the bread of life for our eating, and John 7 covers the living water for our drinking.

To exist is one thing, and to fulfill God's purpose is another.

Whenever you feel that you are weak, you must call for God's faithfulness, saying, "O God, You are faithful. I am weak, but You must make me strong according to Your Word." We are all living under the covenant with God's faithfulness as the sure sign that the flood will not come. This is the church life.