Life

"But growing up was just a part of the process of living, which he realized now was mostly about dying."

"Everything has contributed to your greatness; you ought to do the rest, God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us."

"I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary."

"Life is a kind of flower, its blooms dying but exquisite."

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead."

"The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within — and make the point: This can be done."

"Life ain't great now, but it's much improved."

"Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about."

"Life hath set No landmarks before us."

"When life leaps in the veins, when it beats in the heart, When it thrills as it fills every animate part, Where lurks it? how works it? * * * we scarcely detect it."

"For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?"

"Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well; how long or short permit to heav'n."

"Life is a better teacher of virtue than politicians."

"Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."

"The difficulty in life is the choice."

"A narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities."

"Who is man that he should act proudly and arrogantly? man born of woman and few in days? At his birth there is weeping and travailing, in his youth pain and groans, all his days are 'full of trouble,' and in the end he returns unto dust."

"There is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way."

"The goal and the meaning of existence is to strive upward beyond the limits of the known, and to help one another."

"You're talking about a search for the meaning of life?" I asked. "No, no, no," he said. "For the experience of being alive."

"Poco a poco y también mucho a mucho me sucedió la vida..."

"What is life? - Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die; Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against anything that is growing weak and old in us, and not just in us. Life - therefore means: being devoid of respect for the dying, the wretched, the aged? Always being a murderer? And yet old Moses said: 'Thou shalt not kill.'"

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it."

"Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage."

"A Sanskrit Scholar, J.W. Hauer, speaking of the central message of the "Gita" says, "We are not called to solve the meaning of life, but to find out the deed demanded by us and to work, and so by action to master the riddle of life." Whilst Sanskara says that the essential purpose of the "Gita" is to teach us a way out of bondage and not merely enjoin action."

"And life in a continual state of apprehension was no life at all."

"Our life is no dream, but it should and perhaps will become one."

"I'm alright. I love you. I love my life. I'm always close to you."

"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go."

"There's a reason for the world you and I"

"Many solutions are offered as to how to gain the something more in life. ...Wealth, strength, and keenness of intellect, taken separately of together, do not constitute the essence of real life. ...At its best, life consists of these things, plus something more. ...In Jesus Christ we see perfection in life. ...From an imperfect understanding of Jesus Christ, it would appear that real life depends upon the fulfilling of three conditions — the dwelling on friendly and affectionate terms with God, with ourselves, and with our fellowmen. ...If we fulfill to any degree these three conditions of being in friendly relations with God, ourselves, and our fellows, we shall discover something more of the meaning of life."

"When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ who is the fullness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world... look to Christ."

"Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories. And they will figure out how those stories apply to them."

"We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully — for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up. Because when he shows up, it’s too late to do all the things that you’re always gonna, kinda get around to."

"It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not."

"You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young."

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life."

"Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived."

"An uneasy rhythm of life is more life like than an easy death."

"I asked none why life ends in ways uncertain."

"Life was running, running after a mirage-like desires."

"I asked my life why it carried along my dreams but chose to escape me."

"Still enveloped in a blanket of dreams my life continued to lie still, pretending as if it was in a deep slumber."

"Will you please go journeying for your own sake, till I come living a moment of life?"

"May life remain enamored of its own charm"

"This ME made whole by combining countless fragments could not live in any one part with complete ease."

"May I splinter away from myself break into whole units and live in each with perfection!"

"Every moment age is creeping up stealthily, but life, life is melting down like a candle that is flickering around."

"Life is withering away like a candle that is melting down."