Quotes on life Quotes about life

Quotes on life Quotes about life

«You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can

become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow.

Intention without action is useless.»



«People are like stained glass windows; they sparkle and shine when the

sun is out, but when the darkness set in their true beauty is reavealed only if

there is a light within.» 



I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a

desire to enjoy the world.  This makes it hard to plan the day.  ~Elwyn

Brooks White

Life is like a blanket too short.  You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it

down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage

to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.  ~Marion Howard



Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved

tunnels of leaf miners on the surface of a leaf. We must somehow take a

wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's

going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the

swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.

We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable

and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we

live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense,

to melodrama.





As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through

life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding

light: "What do I really need right now to be happy?" What I come to over

and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection

and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.



We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.