Life is Quotes
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Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.
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Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.
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If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
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Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.
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Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.
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This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
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The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.
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Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.
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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
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Life is full of miracles, but they're not always the ones we pray for.
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The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
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Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots. I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.
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Ah! Somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!
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Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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The best of life is always ahead, always further along.
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You are an eternal being now on the pathway of endless unfoldment, never less but always more yourself. Life is not static. It is forever dynamic, forever creatingnot something done and finished, but something alive, awake and aware. There is something within you that sings the song of eternity. Listen to it.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
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Life's a bitch, and so am I. So get used to it.
