Quotes about life
life dream art
I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art. Helena Bonham Carter
life garden light
If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of buddleia high up in the gutter of a deserted warehouse, or in a heap of frozen cabbages becoming luminous in the reflected light of roadside snow. Helen Dunmore
life glasses broken
Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind. Helen Clark
life fall alaska
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces. Helen Fielding
life rare-occasion hard
On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard. Johann Sebastian Bach
life giving long
My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy, and gives me a reason to stay alive. Johannes Heesters
life book daily-life
Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
life harsh teach
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
life moving taken
Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action.
life age toil
Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.
life creativity open-minded
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
life science together
Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.
life literature superstitions
Superstition is the poetry of life.
life success song
Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.
life art giving-up
The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
life mean nurse
Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.
life finding-love kind
What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with. Haruki Murakami
life expecting form
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
life
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
life memories people
People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.
life-and-love knowing right-now
The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now
life hurt loss
Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
life mean loss
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
life school important
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.
life death opposites
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
life people wish
No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.
life war ends
Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.
life time regret
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
life sad lonely
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
life letting-go memories
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
life-is
Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.
life silence norwegian-wood
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
life memories inspiration
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.