Life Quotes

A solicitor had looked up at the sky, swept blue by the wind, and had a sudden sense of religious consolation, a feeling that this life cannot possibly be all, and that it is not possible for consciousness to end with the end of life.

~ John Lanchester

The purpose of life is to reach a point where you can say 'yes' to all of it.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The face of everyone in mine,the oneness with every blade of grass,the flight with the flocks in the sky, the dance with the clouds across endless skies.The strength with every tree,rooting deep into mother earth,springing forth into the heavens,extending branches of gratitude and love....Such a privilege, honor and grace,such a gift and joy.

~ Patsie Smith

The old exhortations to nationalist fervor and jingoist pride have begun to lose their appeal. Perhaps because of rising standards of living, children are being treated better worldwide. In only a few decades, sweeping global changes have begun to move in precisely the directions needed for human survival. A new consciousness is developing which recognizes that we are one species.

~ Carl Sagan

Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that function was enhanced it turned against the organism that bore it, strove to fathom and explain the very phenomenon that produced it, a hope-filled and hopeless striving of life to comprehend itself, as if nature were rummaging to find itself in itself - ultimately to no avail, since nature cannot be reduced to comprehension, nor in the end can life listen to itself.

~ Thomas Mann

Our relatedness with other living forms provides us something we sorely need: a reverence for the life of all creatures great and small, and an expanded view of our place in nature–not as rulers over it, but as participants in it.

~ Larry Dossey

He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling with its tides, turning with its weight.

~ Douglas Adams

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

~ Jonathan Swift

It is on the consciousness level of the heart that we begin to understand that we are not separated from life. We begin to understand that we are not small separate islands in a great ocean, but that life is one and that we all are small parts of the Whole. We begin to understand what is really important and meaningful in life. It is on the consciousness level of the heart that we begin to understand that life is about sharing, rather than hoarding. We begin to understand that life is about giving, rather than taking.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.

~ Steve Maraboli

It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.

~ Stephen King

Bill suited the action to the word, getting up and leaning over the handlebars and pumping the pedals at a lunatic rate. Looking at Bill's back, which was amazingly broad for a boy of eleven-going-on-twelve, watching it work under the duffel coat, the shoulders slanting first one way and then the other as he shifted his weight from one pedal to the other, Richie suddenly became sure that they were invulnerable...they would live forever and ever.

~ Stephen King

This isn’t how things were supposed to happen. I was supposed to be me. Not this.

~ Aaron Dries

Revenge: it's a dream of flames fueled by scorched remains that are lit to a torch and brought back upon the one who burned you.

~ August Verona

Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play?

~ Shannon L. Alder

We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.

~ Justin Alcala

After torturing our adrenaline by watching a horror movie for a couple of hours the places we are most afraid of are the doors and windows of the room even though they are the only ways for us to escape in case of occurrence such an event.

~ Sanhita Baruah

But if home suddenly becomes not like home, what then?

~ Kate Milford

This whole goddamn house stinks of ghosts.

~ J.d. Salinger

If I did not believe in life, if I were to lose faith in the woman I love, if I were to lose faith in the order of things, even if I were to become convinced, on the contrary, that everything is a disorderly, damned, and perhaps devilish chaos, if I were struck even by all the horrors of human disillusionment-still I would want to live, and as long as I have bent to this cup, I will not tear myself from it until I've drunk it all!

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror.

~ Ron Hall

After all, everyone may not start with the same financial opportunities; however everyone does start with the choice to live their life with integrity, trust, love, respect,understanding for each other and oneself.

~ Tasha Hoggatt

The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.

~ Siri Hustvedt

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.

~ Elizabeth Berg

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

~ Iris Johansen

Nobody can define what exactly true love is. Some believe in it and many others don't. If somebody tries to define it, there will be many agreements and disagreements. Especially since nowadays marriages don't even last long anymore which encourages many to stay single. Faith and understanding in relationships is what many lack because it seems we've forgotten nothing and no one is perfect.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

We can't always know why things happen the way they happen, or why a person makes the choices they do. Knowing why isn't necessary to move forward, unless we make it so.You may never find out why. Don’t let that keep you from moving on with your life.

~ Scott Stabile

Love doesn't pity, nor does it resent. Love understands that, no matter our circumstances, we are all equal. We are all the same. We are all worthy of Love.Some have it harder than you. Some have it easier than you. Love them equally.

~ Scott Stabile

Time changes, that's why our lives change.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Life was all about consequences

~ Liane Moriarty

So many people have understanding, but in reality, they don’t really understand understanding! When you really understand understanding, you get a real understanding!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Inside her, great castles of comprehension, models of the world as she had understood it, shivered. She could not decide whether to let them crumble or to try desperately to save them.

~ Adam Gidwitz

Wisdom is unwanted in the colony of fools.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

The high-minded pursuit of a Jiu Jitsu practitioner pursuing mastery cannot coexist well with the modern world. Our values vary immensely from our contemporaries. This pursuit leaves societal norms slaughtered in our wake. Those who share this journey will praise our efforts, those in the hive will think we have lost it. We must be willing to be misunderstood if we are to understand ourselves.

~ Chris Matakas

Haven't you noticed by this time that everyone's lives are full of things you can't understand? The exceptional thing is the thing you can understand.

~ Robert Aickman

Expansion in love is an action that is available to every being in the universe all the time. A willing awareness will takeus to heaven, a loving attitude will make us free. Nothing else controls our fate. Good or bad behavior is secondary.Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are thinking, love yourself for thinking it. Love is theonly dimension that needs to be changed. If you are not sure how it feels to be loving, love yourself for not being sure ofhow it feels. There is nothing on earth more important than the love which conscious beings feel towards each other,whether or not it is ever expressed.

~ Thaddeus Golas

There comes a time when attachments no longer clasp you; the drift begins slowly and you can comprehend that all relationships are hollow, phoney and transient.

~ Balroop Singh

So grateful for those who truly love me... they hear everything I don't say.

~ Steve Maraboli

The more we understand the One Idea, how all of life is interconnected and interdependent, the more we can act in positive ways for the good of all.

~ Laurence Overmire