Quotes about Life

Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

You have striven so hard, and so long, to compel life. Can't you now slowly change, and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.

Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

Change is the law of life.

At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.