Life Is Quotes - Page 21

• I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about.

  Robert Rubin

  Thinking, Facts, Ambiguity

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• The joy of life is born of concentration. When you are having a cup of tea, the value of that experience depends on your concentration. You have to drink the tea with 100 percent of your concentration.

  Nhat Hanh

  Joy, Tea, Cups

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment”, p.77, Shambhala Publications

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• Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Universe

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• All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Struggle, Effort

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

  Cesare Pavese

  Maturity, Reflection, Long

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• Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Life, Wise, Philosophy

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• Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Falling In Love, Commitment, Matter

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• A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Want, Limitless

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• When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Thinking, Unhappy, Unhappiness

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• Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow.

  Rose Macaulay

  Struggle, Fall, Long

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• O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check, Richer than doing nothing for a robe, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk: Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine Yet keeps his book uncrossed.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Book, Pride

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• Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.

  Eric Hoffer

  Spiritual, Men, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in beliefs, ideas and possessions. The sterile radical, too, is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.

  Eric Hoffer

  Letting Go, Ideas, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Republic, Danger

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.392, Univ of California Press

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• The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Life Worth Living, Unexamined Life

  Apology, 38a (translated by H Tredennick).

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• No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Helping, Grows, Happenings

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• Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Writing, Cells

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• The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who does not complain... For innocence admits of neither regret nor dispute. The innocent one assumes all responsibility.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Regret, Responsibility, Light

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• To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Choices, Important

  Samuel Johnson (1830). “Rasselas: A tale”, p.159

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• Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.

  George Santayana

  Dream, And Love, Waking Life

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• All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Dream, Life Is A Dream

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• If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

  Dalai Lama

  Simple, Contentment, Shelter

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• Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.

  John Keble

  Looks, Gains, Triumph

  John Keble (1842). “The Christian year [by J. Keble, ed. by G.W. Doane]. 1st Amer. ed. 3rd Amer. ed”, p.273

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• No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is better than anything else, and that all things are in themselves equally meaningless. Except for the fragments of faith (in progress, in compassion, in conscience, in hope) to which it still clings, illegitimately, such a culture teaches every one of its children that life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.

  Michael Novak

  Children, Compassion, Progress

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• The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, Men, Purpose

  "Infidels and Heretics: An Agnostic's Anthology". Book by Clarence Darrow and Wallace Rice, 1929.

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