This Life Quotes

Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists.

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.

There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light. But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone.

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.

One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.

Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.

With infinite wisdom and care your life is constantly sustained because Nature flows through you.

Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.

I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?

What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?

All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless

I hope Limitless.. and its this Limitless hope that pushes me forward to live this Life..!!!

What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.

Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.

I finished the [blog] post reflecting on the fact that, despite all the changes in my life, maybe I wasn't so different after all. If I typed it, maybe I could believe it, too.

You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night.

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.

Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?

A life is not a waste of time

It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.

Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.

And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.

In the end, living is defined by dying.