Quotes on Life Is

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama

Everything in life is a metaphor.

Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others pop up especially in the presence of life itself. Among the biomarkers in Earth's atmosphere are ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons from aerosol sprays, vapor from mineral solvents, escaped coolants from refrigerators and air conditioners, and smog from the burning of fossil fuels. No other way to read that list: sure signs of the absence of intelligence.

I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.

...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the best lives is very bad—and considerably worse than most people recognize it to be. Although it is obviously too late to prevent our own existence, it is not too late to prevent the existence of future possible people.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.

…* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little. * to despise money, which is a farce, mere paper, and to hate what you have to do for it, and yet to long to have it in order to be free from slaving for it. * to yearn toward art, music, ballet and good books, and get them only in tantalizing snatches.

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breaths away.

The significance of life is living.

The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.