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Life Quotes (page 210)

I am sometimes amazed at what we did not fully grasp in kindergarten. In the years I was a parish minister I was always taken aback when someone came to me and said. 'I've just come from the doctor and he told me I have only a limited time to live'. I was always tempted to shout 'WHAT? You didn't know? You had to pay a doctor to tell you - at your age? Where were you the week in kingergarten when you got the little cup with the cotton and water and seed? Life happened - remember? A plant grew... Robert Fulghum
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "I would sooner a writer were vulgar than mincing; for life is..."
I would sooner a writer were vulgar than mincing; for life is vulgar, and it is life he seeks. W. Somerset Maugham
There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be. Richard Adams
Meditation upon death does not teach one how to die; it does not make the departure more easy, but ease is not what I seek. Beloved boy, so willful and brooding, your sacrifice will have enriched not my life but my death....Centuries as yet unborn within the dark womb of time would pass by thousands over that tomb without restoring life to him, but likewise without adding to his death, and without changing the fact that he had been. Marguerite Yourcenar
Sometimes, dear brother, I know so well what I want. I am quite able to do without God, both in my life and in my painting, but what I cannot do without, unwell as I am, is something greater than myself, which is my life, the power to create. Vincent Van Gogh
Oprah Winfrey quote: "Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life..."
Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world. Oprah Winfrey
Anton Chekhov quote: "If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work."
If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work. Anton Chekhov
A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive in the constant shadow of illness, and even rise to moments of rampant joy, but the shadow remains, and one has to make space for it. Diane Ackerman
I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life. Isadora Duncan
I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything"... "Nothing was ever good enough," my mom says, "so here at the end of my life, I'm left with nothing. Chuck Palahniuk
It was only Christianity, with resentment against life in its foundations, which made sexuality something impure: it threw filth on the beginning, on the prerequisite of our life Friedrich Nietzsche
It’s strange,” Moominmamma thought. “Strange that people can be sad, and even angry because life is too easy. But that’s the way it is, I suppose. The only thing to do is to start life afresh. Tove Jansson
You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life. Dave Pelzer
A better life can only come when the consciousness of men is altered for the better; and therefore, those who wish to improve life must direct all their efforts towards changing both their own and other people’s consciousness. Leo Tolstoy
The question is: is it better to be alive or dead? Is it nobler to put up with all the nasty things that luck throws your way, or to fight against all those troubles by simply putting an end to them once and for all? Dying, sleeping—that’s all dying is—a sleep that ends all the heartache and shocks that life on earth gives us—that’s an achievement to wish for. To die, to sleep—to sleep, maybe to dream. Ah, but there’s the catch: in death’s sleep who knows what kind of dreams might come, after... William Shakespeare

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