Quotes on Life

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.

Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Maybe there is something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.