Quotes Tagged "life"

Those who don't jump will never fly.

Life is hell, at some point we all just have to get used to it.

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.

Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.

We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones all live on, and through them, so do we. It's not about what you had, but what you gave. It's not about how you looked, but how you lived. And it's not just about being remembered. It's about giving people a good reason to remember you.

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever.

Your cold mornings are filled with the heartache about the fact that although we are not at ease in this world, it is all we have, that it is ours but that it is full of strife, so that all we can call our own is strife; but even that is better than nothing at all, isn't it? And as you split the frost-laced wood with numb hands, rejoice that your uncertainty is God's will and His grace toward you that that is beautiful, and a part of a greater certainty, as your own father always said in his sermons and to you at home. And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it. And when you resent the ache in your heart, remember: You will be dead and buried soon enough.

Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.

Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

Until you change how you get things done, you'll never know what works best.

So I would choose to be with you, That's if the choice were mine to make, But you can make decisions too, And you can have this heart to break

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.