On Life Quotes

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

But what is life if you don't live it?

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.

By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

Knowing God is like listening to beautiful music. His words have power. He lifts me up & soothes my soul. He makes me dance. He gives me joy.

Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.

Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination.

When people start liking people, that’s when someone has the ability to get hurt.

A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

Life is serious but art is fun!

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.

Do anything, save to lie down and die!

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.

If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.

It comes from within.

poems are small moments of enlightenment

In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything.

If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

Too much of anything can make you sick, even the good can be a curse - Cheryl Cole

Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.