Quotes about life
life strong truth
Charles Dickens There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
life saying-goodbye expectations
Charles Dickens Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
life autism world
Charles Dickens This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.
life moral existence
Charles Dickens Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
life littles
Charles Dickens Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
life people astonishing
Charles Caleb Colton It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
life soul prison
Charles Caleb Colton Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.
life happiness dark
Charles Caleb Colton Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
life distance journey
Charles Caleb Colton Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
life book logical
Charles Caleb Colton Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
life flower heart
Charles Dickens While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.
life children memories
Charles Dickens There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.
life success men
Charles Dickens Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
life cells ivy
Charles Dickens Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.
life interesting watches
Charles Dickens Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.
life summer passion
Charles Dickens Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold
life life-is grind
Charles Dickens My life is one demd horrid grind.
life holiday mind
Charles Dickens They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.
life beer skittles
Charles Stuart Calverley Life is with such all beer and skittles. They are not difficult to please About their victuals.
life time greatness
Charles Simmons Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.
life men noble
Charles Simmons Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.
life-changing facts events
Charles Spurgeon The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.
life bears would-be
Charles Spurgeon I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.
life-and-love effort and-love
Alan Watts Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.
life change trying
Alan Watts To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.
life air views
Alan Watts What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of view? It's using up air; it's using up energy. It's really not doing anything except being ornamental. And yet here's this whole vegetable world, cactus plants, trees, roses, tulips, and edible vegetables, like cabbages, celery, lettuce - they're all doing this dance.
life cheer-up reality
Alan Watts Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.
life death summer
Alan Watts When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and the snow comes, is some kind of defeat, something which we should hold out against. No. Winter is part of the natural course of events. No winter, no summer. No cold, no heat.
life attitude skins
Alan Watts The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events--that the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of our own bodies--and will end in destroying the very environment from which we emerge and upon which our whole life depends.
life mean thinking
Alan Watts More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious thinking rather than unconscious 'know-how'. This is much less to our advantage than we like to suppose.
life music symphony
Alan Watts No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.
life moments destination
Alan Watts The destination of life is this eternal moment.