Quotes on Life Is

You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without.

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.

No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged without any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you.

Your life is meant to be an epic story. How you think, perform and live today is part of that script.

The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity which has far-reaching effects in every aspect of a person's life. It ultimately makes people protective of the environment in a very committed way. It is my opinion that the study of natural history should be the primary avenue for creating environmentalists.

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.

Without uncertainty and the unknown, life is just a stale repetition of outworn memories. You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is yourself left over from yesterday. Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities.

I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

Never, ever, ever think that your life is over, but know always that each day, each hour, each moment is another beginning, another opportunity, another chance to re-create yourself anew.

What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.

Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.

The reason I still work at this stage of life is because I enjoy learning something new each day.

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it