Life Quotes

For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would not accept such odds if there were no lion.

~ Christiaan Barnard

I learned that dying is just a part of our journey of life. We are all on this journey and dying is a part of it for each of us. That does not mean that hope is hone. Hope just changes to a very realistic, practical hope... Sometimes hope becomes more beautiful than ever in our lives because it is about hope for the present moment and hope that is natural, such as, 'I hope the sun shines today'.

~ Joyce Hutchinson

When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.

~ Lauren Destefano

The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong.

~ Ally Condie

Dying is the last thing I will ever do.

~ John Barrymore

How mighty you are as death comes upon you and your color fades. Yet from life and lush to bold array, screaming into the night.

~ Kellie Elmore

Makebelieve is a writer's best friend.

~ Solange Nicole

Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head.

~ Christy Hall

I no longer fear battles and storms that come in the path but afraid of losing someone that is dear to my heart, to whom without winning battles and passing through storms means nothing to me.

~ Irfa Rahat

Gradually, I am realizing who I'm.

~ Irfa Rahat

If you want something different out of life, you have to be prepared to try something new.

~ Karon Waddell

Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the small from the same stream, from the same law of cause, of becoming and dying.

~ Hermann Hesse

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

~ Hermann Hesse

Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou.When had it all started, where will it end?We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different.Yet one.One and again.

~ Kathryn Lasky

Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand. I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

~ Leo Tolstoy

The greatest unity comes from the greatest differences which are brought together in relationship.

~ Saunsea

The unity in diversity lies only in your heart.

~ Cass Van Krah

In life we are separated by boundaries political, cultural, ethical, linguistical and psychical. But in death we are all united, for all afterlife is similarly unknown

~ Prabhukrishna M

I cannot tell you how much I love you. But that which of all things I have most at heart, with regard to you, is the real progress of your soul in the divine life. Heaven seems to be awakened in you. It is a tender plant. It requires stillness, meekness, and the unity of the heart, totally given up to the unknown workings of the Spirit of God, which will do all its work in the calm soul, that has no hunger or desire but to escape out of the mire of its earthly life into its lost union and life in God. I mention this, out of a fear of your giving in to an eagerness about many things, which, though seemingly innocent, yet divide and weaken the workings of the divine life within you.

~ William Law

Expansion (both far and wide) is the order of the day

~ Sereda Aleta Dailey

If we want to be able to pick up the pieces of our lives and go on living, we have to get over the irrationalfeeling that every misfortune is our fault, the direct result of our mistakes or misbehavior. We are really not that powerful. Not everythingthat happens in the world is our doin

~ Harold S. Kushner

Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart

~ Orson Scott Card

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

~ Erma Bombeck

It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.

~ Aron Ralston

You should get out of here. Have a good life.

~ Bree Despain

Letting go isn’t about forgetting, it’s about learning and moving on. It’s making a choice to be strengthened by your past… not strangled by it.

~ Steve Maraboli

Life seems to flood by, taking our loves quickly in its flow. In the growth of children, in the aging of beloved parents, time's chart is magnified, shown in its particularity, focused, so that with each celebration of maturity there is also a pang of loss. This is our human problem, one common to parents, sons and daughters, too - how to let go while holding tight, how to simultaneously cherish the closeness and intricacy of the bond while at the same time letting out the raveling string, the red yarn that ties our hearts.

~ Louise Erdrich

Isn't it weird the way you remember things, when someone's gone?

~ Sarah Dessen

The process of letting go is an act of accepting.

~ Debasish Mridha

Life is full of bullshit; reject or deal with it, but move on.

~ Sue Fitzmaurice

You can't move forward if you're still hanging on.

~ Sue Fitzmaurice

Let go... How would your life be different if you learned to let go of things that have already let go of you? From relationships long gone, to old grudges, to regrets, to all the “could’ve” and “should’ve,” to the dead friendships you still hang on to... Free yourself from the burden of a past you cannot change.

~ Steve Maraboli

Let go... How would your life be different if you learned to let go of things that have already let go of you? From relationships long gone, to old grudges, to regrets, to all the 'could’ve' and 'should’ve,' to the dead friendships you still hang on to... Free yourself from the burden of a past you cannot change.

~ Steve Maraboli

Letting go is never easy. There is no short-cut or trick to it. You must be committed enough to your future to let go of your past. It's not easy and it's likely to hurt, but it is for the best.

~ Steve Maraboli

Things change, time changes. People change, life changes. Time changes things, life changes people.

~ Aline Alzime

Sometimes letting go is the hardest thing imaginable, yet holding on is even harder.

~ Toni Sorenson

Letting go isn’t about having the courage to release the past, it’s about having the wisdom to embrace the present.

~ Steve Maraboli

You don't live in the past, you take a sledgehammer to it to see what stands so that you can build on it.

~ Samuel L. Drew

We love someone, so we care. That love can morph into feeling responsible for them, then into we're accountable, then into we're to blame for their self-inflicted pain; then it's our fault if they crash and burn; then the fear causes us to hold on even tighter. Walk this in reverse until you get back to, we love, we care. Now, love with wisdom. Step one in placing someone's life into His hands.

~ Lee Goff