Quotes about life

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“Within the dark forest of life, I encountered a soul who had adopted suffering as a way of life. I met her there once on a mission to seek meaning. I was close to loving her until I realized, no one could ever extinguish the fire. Innately, she was the torch that always burned.”

“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
There is never too much colour…”

“(NEXT GENERATION) " My goal in life is to have an early retirement. -Engr. Abah Sule”

“Leave the world and live your life.”

“The meaning of life of a humankind is the integrity of its unity, enlightenment, and long-term stability for the sake of everyone's happiness.”

“" Love is life dealth, and joy, it's irrespective of change, peace everthing. I love you, that's all I know right now. SEMPETERNAL " 1 Abah Sule, PE”

“You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off.”

“More Than A Wife & More than a Husband, There is no life without you.”

“The people we know are dead, yet you came back for me …, there is no life without you.”

“Entrust your life to a person who can feel her heartbeat when you kiss her.”

“The most important things in life are not 'things'.
To me, they are the people, the lives.”

“Truth is your only chance at living the life you want to live and making life choices that are actually right for you.”

“We must decide: is life something that is happening to us or something that is happening through us? If we are part of the problem, we can also be part of the solution.”

“Allow yourself to call forth all the joy and wonder that life can bring you, in whatever form you happily choose!”

“The tiniest gesture -- a smile, a gentle look, a simple pat on the arm, a soft word -- can change a person's life. Before this very day is out, you are going to have a chance to live in that possibility. Look. Watch. See what this day brings you. And be ready.”

“When we understand that Who We Are is pure energy, the Essential Essence of Life itself, and that this energy not only composes us and comprises us, but is projected through us, from us, and outward into the world…and when we understand furthermore that energy affects other energy, that all energy impacts other energy…then we begin to understand that how we think about a thing determines how the thing is, and continues to be.”

“All of life is Divine, and when we treat all of life as Divine we change everything. When we treat everyone as Divine, there will be war no more.”

“All of life is spiritual, and therefore all of life's problems are spiritually based, and spiritually solved. The only peace in all the world that is sustaining is Internal Peace.”

“Life proceeds out of your intentions for it. We have been told, “As you believe, so will it be done unto you,” and that is true. Belief is a strong and very powerful energy. It is a magnet. It attracts to us what we firmly expect it to.”

“To find beauty in everyone you must see beauty in everyone, then announce that you see it, for in announcing it, you place it there in their reality. Make it your life's mission today to bring to the attention of another just how extraordinary they are. Say it. Say it. SAY it. Their heart is waiting to know that their own best thought about themselves can be believed.”

“Cause everyone whose life you touch to feel worthy. Give everyone a sense of their own worthiness as a person, a sense of the true wonder of who they are. Give this gift and you will heal the world.”

“Success in any area of your life is not found in producing what you think you must produce on your journey, it’s found in the love, the joy, the happiness, and the sense of True Self that you experience—and that others experience in their life because of you—along the way. That alone can produce the rest of what you think you are “supposed to” produce.”

“Life is a dialogue between love and the dust,
but there's a deeper death than death,
this is death, when the love, departs,
Each drop of blood is a starry song
and our souls are breaths of eternity.
In the end the buds returning to the tree.
The tree cares for us.”

“You are deeply loved by God. Do you know that? I mean, do you really know that? Because if you do, you will move through life without fear. You will know that only Perfection can occur.”

“In dreams, beyond imagination, there is always a part of life.”

“Your mindset determines your destiny, so choose positivity and watch your life transform.”

“A positive mindset is not just a state of mind, it's a way of life.”

“In life remember to move on your way, always at a dance step.”

“And we also know that life itself is a seemingly endless battle. A battle between what is good and bad in us. What we can only possibly win by the only way, which is to conquer and defeat ourselves.”

“Feeling is your compass. If you can feel, you have no cause to seek an outside opinion about your direction in life.”

“You are lively and impatient because there is so much life inside you.”

“Many of us are becoming disconnected from Earth, we are becoming desensitized from mother nature. By moving into our bodies we ground ourselves, developing a greater awareness and appreciation for life. Loving yourself grounds you, because you let go of social anxiety, you see—you are enough.”

“At this point in life they leave
strengthening homegrown earthquakes,
after having verified that the questions
Thrown into the air they then fall in the form of a slap.”

“In the end, it's just everyday life and forgetting, because there's nothing fantastic about people having to die every day.”

“Whenever I encounter a challenge in my life, I use the experience to learn and grow. I rise above all limitations.”

“Hey oh, here I am… and here we go life's waiting to begin”

“Life minus love equals zero.”

“Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.”

“Songs to Herself:
She waved at all the people on the trains & later, when she saw they didn't wave back, she started singing songs to herself & it went that way the whole day & she couldn't remember having a better time in her life.”

“I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.”

“Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.”

“Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.”

“If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for”

“All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.”

“Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.”

“What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.”

“Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.”

“That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.”

“Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.”

“One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful.. we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine..”

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”

“Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.”

“Three in the morning is never the time to try and sort out your life.”

“You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?”

“One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid… One wants… But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?”

“At birth, we emerge from dream soup.
At death, we sink back into dream soup.
In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land.
Life is a portage.”

“Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.”

“We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.”

“I realized that life is so short: Why waste one minute of it worrying what other people think or say about you, or what score you got on some test? Why not believe what you want to believe, and do what you love?”

“The animals of the planet are in desperate peril… Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.”

“any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense”

“In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.”

“Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play. This turns possible underachievers into happy warriors.”

“You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time…”

“To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.”

“I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.”

“Nothing could have survived our life.”

“Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”

“Moth: I gave you my life.

Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.”

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.”

“It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.”

“They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.”

“He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.”

“Alas! how easily things go wrong!
A sigh too deep or a kiss too long,
And then comes a mist and a weeping rain,
And life is never the same again.”

“Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.”

“I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!”

“Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.”

“My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.”

“sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!”

“Life is full of screwups," he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.”

“Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail…”

“Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.”

“Enjoying life is far superior to being graded on your performance in life.”

“He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.”

“I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.”

“Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God… It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.”

“We’re taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side, to be optimistic. Not in this case. In this case, look on the dark side. Assume rejection first. Assume you’re the rule, not the exception.”

“In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.”

“Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.”

“It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.”

“Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?”

“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”

“Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.”

“… but ready or not, life goes on.”

“You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur… bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.”

“And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.”

“Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.”

“Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't — some people do lead enchanted lives — but odds are that it will. Some time.”

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”