Quotes about life
life nature-life knows
He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature. Zhuangzi
life joy transition
To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
life doors dying
Tzu Li went to see Tzu Lai who was dying. Leaning against the door, he said, 'Great is the Creator! What will he make of you now? Will he make you into a rat's liver? Will he make you into an insect's leg?' Tzu-Lai replied, 'The universe gave me my body so I may be carried, my life so I may work, my old age so I may repose, and my death so I may rest. To regard life as good is the way to regard death as good. . . . If I regard the universe as a great furnace and creation as a master foundryman, why should anywhere I go not be all right?'
life letting-go ignorant
To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
life yesterday hardship
Of course, it's always bad to lose, of course it's always a hardship when you lose to yesterday's miners or yesterday's tractor drivers. But life is life. It'll surely go on. Vladimir Putin
life ukraine track
Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe.
life art book
In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life. . . . The men of talent are constantly forced to serve the rest. They make the discoveries and inventions, order the battles, write the books, and produce the works of art. The benefit and enjoyment go to the whole. There are those who joyfully order their own lives so that they may serve the welfare of mankind. William Graham Sumner
life term humans
In its present terms, the global system values property over human life. William Greider
life men house
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.
life men primitive-man
If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts.
life memorable feet
He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet. William Golding
life pain selling
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something. William Goldman
life children lying
And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.
life sad death
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
life art each-day
The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well. Wilferd Peterson
life heart ears
The ear is the avenue to the heart. Voltaire
life expectations
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
life play hands
You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.
life
Life - life - let there be life! William Ernest Henley
life wind storm
Life - life - let there be life! Better a thousand times the roaring hours When wave and wind, Like the Arch-Murderer in flight From the Avenger at his heel, Storm through the desolate fastnesses And wild waste places of the world!
life spring heart
Life - life - life! 'Tis the sole great thing This side of death, Heart on heart in the wonder of Spring!
life dream fighting
Life - give me life until the end, That at the very top of being, The battle-spirit shouting in my blood, Out of the reddest hell of the fight I may be snatched and flung Into the everlasting lull, The immortal, incommunicable dream.
life years rose
Who but knows How it goes! Life's a last year's Nightingale, Love's a last year's rose.
life wind curls
Life is a smoke that curls- Curls in a flickering skein, That winds and whisks and whirls, A figment thin and vain, Into the vast inane. One end for hut and hall.
life ocean men
Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.
life running spring
Love, which is lust, is the Lamp in the Tomb. Love, which is lust, is the Call from the Gloom. Love, which is lust, is the Main of Desire. Love, which is lust, is the Centric Fire. So man and woman will keep their trust, Till the very Springs of the Sea run dust. Yea, each with the other will lose and win, Till the very Sides of the Grave fall in. For the strife of Love's the abysmal strife, And the word of Love is the Word of Life. And they that go with the Word unsaid, Though they seem of the living, are damned and dead.
life lasts foundation
Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death.
life fate punishment
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
life long may
Once you have sold a customer, make sure he is satisfied with your goods. Stay with him until the goods are used up or worn out. Your product may be of such long life that you will never sell him again, but he will sell you and your product to his friends. William Feather
life wisdom learning
Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why. William Stafford
life book reading
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. William Styron
life moving loss
Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse. William Raspberry
life tombstone eye
Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by William Butler Yeats