Life Quotes - Page 83

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.

Henry James

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

Anne Brontë

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

Frank Delaney

Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don't even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving.

Jayleigh Cape

To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.

Dalai Lama XIV

The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-like shadows crept up the sky through which the stars appeared. Soon, however, they too began to pale before a splendour in the east, and the advent of the dawn declared itself in the newborn blue of heaven. Quieter and yet more quiet grew the sea, quiet as the soft mist that brooded on her bosom, and covered up her troubling, as in our tempestuous life the transitory wreaths of sleep brook upon a pain-racked soul, causing it to forget its sorrow. From the east to the west sped those angels of the Dawn, from sea to sea, from mountain-top to mountain-top, scattering light from breast and wing. On they sped out of the darkness, perfect, glorious; on, over the quiet sea, over the low coast-line, and the swamps beyond, and the mountains above them; over those who slept in peace and those who woke in sorrow; over the evil and the good; over the living and the dead; over the wide world and all that breathes or as breathed thereon.

H. Rider Haggard

Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters.

Marc Pamittan

When life is difficult, try looking up at the night sky. A million stars proclaim aloud His Handiwork. And you know you are never alone.

Anusha Atukorala

When I die, I will return to where I first came from. Back to the stars.

Amani Abbas

You travelamong the starswhilst I grovelupon this earth.Deep down I knew,it would takeseveral more lifetimesbefore I couldreach you.

Xue Yun

She said his music was tuned to the biggest music there ever was, the music of the stars.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life lived in those celestial tidal pools so far from us.

Jeff VanderMeer

I watched the stars and thought of other lives.

David Mitchell

People are like stars in the night sky, all are not equal, but still, everyone shines.

Joe Mari Fadrigalan

In the effort to reach the stars and change the world, make sure you touch a heart and change a life.

Stella Payton

Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men who will live tens of thousands of years after we have ceased to be.

Marguerite Yourcenar

If I'm confused, or upset, or angry, if I can go out and look at the stars I'll almost always get back a sense of proportion. It's not that they make me feel insignificant; it's the very opposite; they make me feel that everything matters, be it ever so small, and that there's meaning to life even when it seems most meaningless.

Madeleine L'Engle

And maybe the only reason we have to fall back down to grow again is the same cause for the sun to rise and sink: our stars need time to shine at night to heal, to heal.

Anonymous

The fires of nightthrough distance danceghosts who still know how to sing

Tamara Rendell

The stars flash out of the dark and disappear, but not for people to see. We're just people. And we flash into life and disappear, but not for the stars to see. They're just stars.How strange, strange, strange. Being alive, feeling, thinking __

Mary Stolz

All summers take me back to the sea. There in the long eelgrass, like birds' eggs waiting to be hatched, my brothers and sister and I sit, grasses higher than our heads, arms and legs like thicker versions of the grass waving in the wind, looking up at the blue sky. My mother is gathering food for dinner: clams and mussels and the sharply salty greens that grow by the shore. It is warm enough to lie here in the little silty puddles like bathwater left in the tub after the plug has been pulled. It is the beginning of July and we have two months to live out the long, nurturing days, watching the geese and the saltwater swans and the tides as they are today, slipping out, out, out as the moon pulls the other three seasons far away wherever it takes things. Out past the planets, far away from Uranus and the edge of our solar system, into the brilliantly lit dark where the things we don't know about yet reside. Out past my childhood, out past the ghosts, out past the breakwater of the stars. Like the silvery lace curtains of my bedroom being drawn from my window, letting in light, so the moon gently pulls back the layers of the year, leaving the best part open and free. So summer comes to me.

Polly Horvath

Tonight I feel like a shooting star, but I hope my shine will last much longer.

Bernard Jan

Our lives are a constellation of events, strung together, glittering; the shapes only being seen from a distance.

Patricia Robin Woodruff

I believe the stars align so souls can find one another. Whether they are meant to be souls in love or souls in life remains to be seen.

Renee Ahdieh

In the tide of these wild thoughts we checked our fancy, remembering that only on the rare grains called planets can life gain foothold, and that all this wealth of restless jewels was but a waste of fire.

Olaf Stapledon

I am skin, but underneath livesfire and stars and wild!

Melody Lee

Stars on the sky, stars on the ground. It's hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins.

Jennifer Niven

Pain and betrayal and then nothingness. That's the death and she's almost welcoming it.

M.C. Frank

wherever you go,wherever you live, still the stars up there will remain the same, as they were when we were together.

Jaymin Panchasara

Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea.

Nikita Gill

Life is so complete that even when we are knocked on our backs, we have the best view of the stars.

Laura Teresa Marquez

Per aspera ad astra, Papa,' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.

Ruta Sepetys

Cause and effect, in the Buddhist sense, though. Any action you undertake creates a seed that will sprout when the conditions are right, creating a good or bad result.""Do you believe in it?"He doesn’t allow even a pause. “Very much so.

Jacquie Underdown

We know very well that we have ancestors. But our ancestors are not only human. We have animal ancestors; we have plant ancestors; and we have mineral ancestors. Our human ancestors are still very young. Human beings appeared very late in the history of life on Earth. Our animal ancestors are still there within us. The reptile, the fish, and the ape are still in our blood. Not only were they part of us in the past, but they continue to exist within us. Just look deeply into your cells. We see that we are the whole history of life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Somewhere Dōgen wrote about the number of moments in the snap of a finger. I don’t remember the exact figure, only that it was large and seemed quite arbitrary and absurd, but I imagine that when I am in the cockpit of my plane, aiming the nose at the hull of an American battleship, every single one will be clear and pure and discernible. At the moment of my death, I look forward at last to being fully aware and alive.

Ruth Ozeki

Karma means ‘action’. Like many, you misunderstand its nature. Past misdeeds can be corrected before your karma ripens: it is not some pre-determined fate. It is what you do now that counts.

John Dolan

Death for [the Buddhist] is the shadow on the face of life, for the opposite of death is birth, not life; that which is born must die. Life has no opposite, for life goes on; only its forms must change unceasingly. It is life which creates, uses and then destroys each form of life, whether yours or mine or that of the mountain, the empire or the fly.

Christmas Humphreys

You are as the yellow leaf.The messengers of death are at hand.You are to travel far away.What will you take with you?You are the lampTo lighten the way.Then hurry, hurry.When your light shinesWithout impurity or desireYou will come into the boundless country.Your life is falling away.Death is at hand.Where will you rest on the way?What have you taken with you?You are the lampTo lighten the way.Then hurry, hurry.When your light shines purelyYou will not be bornAnd you will not die.

Gautama Buddha

I am not a Buddhist. Yet there is a Buddhist story that I hold dear. A monk walks in a forest, and chances upon a tiger. The tiger chases him, and the monk runs until he comes to a cliff. With the tiger on his heels, the man grasps a vine and clambers down. Another tiger appears at the bottom. As the man hangs there, a mouse crawls from a crevice just beyond his reach and begins to gnaw the vine. Death above, death below, and death in between. He sees a big ripe strawberry near his mouth. It is delicious.In this moment, flying miles above the strawberry fields of California's San Joachin Valley, I think that I would change the ending of this story. Instead of giving the doomed man a strawberry, what if we leave him alone with the two tigers, the mouse, and the fraying vine? For the last time, his arms grow tired, he feels a familiar ache deep in his muscles. For the last time he catches his breath, feels a rasping in his throat and lungs. He feels this, and a thousand other things. It is all delicious.

Derrick Jensen

A maggot is just another life form.

Shinmon Aoki

Letting go of a craving is not rejecting it but allowing it to be itself: a contingent state of mind that once arisen will pass away. Instead of forcibly freeing ourselves from it, notice how its very nature is to free itself. To let it go is like releasing a snake that you have been clutching in your hand. By identifying with a craving ('I want this," don't want' that"), you tighten the clutch and intensify its resistance. Instead of being a state of mind that you have, it becomes a compulsion that has you. As with understanding anguish, the challenge in letting go of craving is to act before habitual reactions incapacitate us.

Stephen Batchelor

You act like you're okay,Like everything is just fine.But you can't hide a frown,And smile at the same time.

Mimi Shannon

Be Strong , Have Faith and Always Smile .

Ra'ad Ammari

Someday we're going to look back on every shared smile and smile some more. It's moments like this that make life worth enduring.

Nadège Richards

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double. And that is life. A crust and a corner that makes love precious, With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter. And that is life.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Try smiling at people, you never know how one smile can affect their day.

Benjamin Bayani

I'm wearing this fake smile.

Daae ALF

Keep a smile, It will enrich your profile.Don't be sad,It only effects bad.

Vishal Bhojwani

Smile and thank God, that you are alive today!

John Steinbeck

A smile doesn't always stand for a perfect life.

Faraaz Kazi

When I die, I would love to die smiling. If however I forget this, I hope I have someone there to make me smile.

Fafore

We all smiled because it was the truth: Living did take a lot more guts than giving up.

Brendan Halpin

Adam has the most engaging smile and I realize, this is a private smile reserved just for me . . . like he’s waited his whole life for just one smile.

Ashley Pullo

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

Jeanne Calment

One Smile makes two Smiles and two makes many Smiles so keep Smiling :) :).

Bhago

Be awesome! Smile like a flower.

Debasish Mridha

Life is here to be enjoyed, your happiness and your smile makes it even better

Jim Jensen

Life isn't about the brand of clothes you wear, or about who looks the best. It's about the number of faces which smile when they hear your name

Christian O. Ortiz

A smile is only complete when the face and the whole body is in one accord

Temitayo A

Peace is a child's beautiful smile and a flower's freshnessPeace is an inner perception of joyfulness and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

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