Quotes about life
life crazy insanity
Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time. Haruki Murakami
life-is metaphor
Everything in life is a metaphor.
life tools ability
Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.
life explanation ifs
If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.
life past shapes
What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.
life destiny water
Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
life quiet these-days
You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.
life goes-on lasts
As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.
life encounters chance
Chance encounters are what keep us going.
life men long
Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt. Man errs as long as he strives. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
life world disease
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
life letters lasts
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
life flower yield
We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
life moving thinking
And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. . . . Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out.
life human-life humans
Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
life art opportunity
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.
life men long
Man errs as long as he strives.
life world
One lives but once in the world.
life heaven arms
It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
life numbers
Sing it not in mournful numbers.
life tree green
My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.
life lying dumb
The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.
life moving thinking
We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.
life nature men
No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.
life passion bad-day
I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.
life method earnestness
Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.
life way campaigns
That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
life witty clever
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
life spring tree
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
life motivational thinking
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
life thanksgiving blessed
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
life mountain-ranges dust
From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.
life contentment important
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.