Quotes about Life
I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life?, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did?
— Mother Teresa
Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
— DH Lawrence
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
— Anonymous
What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.
— Anonymous
And now, I am dying beyond my means.
— Oscar Wilde
LOVE: He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
— Albert Einstein
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking
— Samuel Johnson
Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
— Robert Frost
Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. All my life the god of the Mountain has been wooing me. Oh, look up once at least before the end and wish me joy. I am going to my lover. Do you not see now?
— CS Lewis
These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today, Abortion...For the pregnant women who don't want their children, give them to me.
— Mother Teresa
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
— DH Lawrence