Quotes on Life Is

to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.

Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.

We need not wait for the world to become more mystical; the world is mystical. Our problem is not that the world lacks magic; our problem is that we don't believe in its magic. We do not show up fully for life, and then wonder why life is not showing up more fully for us.

Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution.

I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time.

If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

For too long, we’ve called unbelievers to “invite Jesus into your life.” Jesus doesn’t want to be in your life. Your life is a wreck. Jesus calls you into his life. And his life isn’t boring or purposeless or static. It’s wild and exhilarating and unpredictable.

The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges the gross elements of matter - a spark of celestial fire, by which life is kindled and preserved, and which, if even the instruments it employs are indestructible in their essence, must itself, of necessity, be immortal.

We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

Most of life is hell. It’s filed with failure and loss. People disappoint you. Dreams don’t work out. Hearts get broken. Innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But you’ll never get to the next great moment if you don’t keep going. So that’s what I do. I keep going.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. Justice requires that we carefully weigh rights and privileges and assure that each member of a community receives his due share. Love does not weigh rights and privileges too carefully because it prompts each to bear the burden of the other.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

Life is short, and potential studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something significant when we follow our passionate interests and work in areas of deepest personal meaning.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.